Texworks word count6/16/2023 ![]() I think that this is in principle a nice idea but I have not managed to use it because of my obsessive-compulsive usage of M-q. The benefit is that it works well with version control systems since changes to a sentence can remain localized. In other words a period at the end of a sentence should be followed by a hard return. Combining these two I manage to keep my TeX source more or less decently formatted.īy the way, I have heard the suggestion to always start a new sentence at the beginning of a line. Furthermore M-q is bound to LaTeX-fill-paragraph (in the AucTeX mode - but I don't remember if this is a standard binding or one of my bindings - I'm pretty sure it's the latter). The way I actually use hard wrapping is to have auto-fill-mode turned on. ![]() Emacs 23 which I currently use changes this but it will be a long time before everybody upgrades to 23 so I can sneak soft wrapped texts to them. The second reason is that Emacs was until recently able to handle properly on hard wrapping. So, when I work on an article with someone it would be a big pain for me to soft wrap while the other person hard wraps. Philippe Fournier-Viger is a professor of Computer Science and also the founder of the open-source data mining software SPMF, offering more than 145 data mining algorithms.Although I would prefer to use soft wrapping I end up using hard wrapping for one practical reason: all of my collaborators do the same. In this blog post, I shown how to use a very useful tool called latexdiff for researchers who are writing their papers using Latex. I will not provide further details about this because I did not install it that way. Perl can be downloaded from here: Then, you should download the latexdiff package from CTAN to install it: latexdiff To install latexdiff on other platforms, you should first make sure that Perl is installed on your machine. But there are a lot of command line parameters for latexdiff that can be used perhaps to fix these problems if you encounter them. Also, for some Latex files, the output of latexdiff may not compile. It took me several tries before I could make it work on some Latex files because the encoding was not in UTF-8. First, the encoding of your Latex files may cause some problems. ![]() Note 2 : There are a lot of things can go wrong when installing latexdiff on Windows. Yes, you can obtain a word count which automatically excludes the LaTeX commands by selecting Menu and then Word Count as demonstrated in this short screencast: This will run the texcount utility to count the words in the projects main file and any files imported into your projects main file via include and input. Note 1: If you want to use latexdiff in any directories (not just in \miktek\bin\, you should add the path to the directory \miktek\bin\ to the PATH environment variable of Windows. You can then compile out.tex using Latex. This will create a new Latex file called out.tex that highlight the differences between your two Latex files. From the \miktex\bin\ directory, you can now run the command using the command line interface: Open the Miktek Package Manager and install the package “ latexdiff“.Īs a result, latexdiff.exe will be installed in the directory \miktex\bin\ of your Miktek installation. Using Latexdiff on windows with the MikTek Latex distributionĬonsider that you want to compare two files called v1.tex and v2.tex. I will first explain how to use it on Windows with MikTek. ![]() This tool can be used both on Windows and Linux/Unix. Comparing two documents is very useful for researchers, for example, to highlight the changes that have been made to improve a journal paper when it is revised. The goal is to see the changes made between two files as it would appear when comparing two revisions of a document using Microsoft Word. Today, I will go in more details about Latex and talk about a nice tool for comparing two Latex files to see the differences. I previously wrote a blog post about the reasons for using Latex to write research papers. Many researchers are using Latex to write research papers instead of using Microsoft Word.
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