We are submitting the review “Twenty Years After: Scaling Relations in Oxygen Electrocatalysis and Beyond“
I have made so many changes to the LaTeX code that latexdiff gives 99+ errors. UPDATE: the errors were related to table and equations. To fix them I played with –math-markup=none and –add-to-config PICTURENEV=tabular, but eventually just fixed the Tables and specific errors.
There are two ways to get diff in overleaf, which I use.
In search for an alternative, have tested DiffPDF and Meld. The result looks useful, yet unsuitable for submitting them to the editor. So, this post should have a label “do not know how” instead of usual “know-how”. Still, fun.
To make the last printscreen, I did the following.
Installed packages in Linux/Ubuntu/WSL2.
sudo apt-get -y install meld calibre parallelSaved the following code in a file named “diffdoc” (with no extensions) inside directory “/usr/local/bin”.
usage="
*** usage:
diffepub - compare text in two files. Valid format for input files are:
MOBI, LIT, PRC, EPUB, ODT, HTML, CBR, CBZ, RTF, TXT, PDF and LRS.
diffepub -h | FILE1 FILE2
-h print this message
Example:
diffepub my_file1.pdf my_file2.pdf
diffepub my_file1.epub my_file2.epub
v0.2 (added parallel and 3 files processing)
"
#parse command line options
while getopts "h" OPTIONS ; do
case ${OPTIONS} in
h|-help) echo "${usage}"; exit;;
esac
done
shift $(($OPTIND - 1))
#check if first 2 command line arguments are files
if [ -z "$1" ] || [ -z "$2" ] || [ ! -f "$1" ] || [ ! -f "$2" ]
then
echo "ERROR: input files do not exist."
echo
echo "$usage"
exit
fi
#create temporary files (first & last 10 characters of
# input files w/o extension)
file1=`basename "$1" | sed -r -e '
s/\..*$// #strip file extension
s/(^.{1,10}).*(.{10})/\1__\2/ #take first-last 10 chars
s/$/_XXX.txt/ #add tmp file extension
'`
TMPFILE1=$(mktemp --tmpdir "$file1")
file2=`basename "$2" | sed -r -e '
s/\..*$// #strip file extension
s/(^.{1,10}).*(.{10})/\1__\2/ #take first-last 10 chars
s/$/_XXX.txt/ #add tmp file extension
'`
TMPFILE2=$(mktemp --tmpdir "$file2")
if [ "$#" -gt 2 ]
then
file3=`basename "$3" | sed -r -e '
s/\..*$// #strip file extension
s/(^.{1,10}).*(.{10})/\1__\2/ #take first-last 10 chars
s/$/_XXX.txt/ #add tmp file extension
'`
TMPFILE3=$(mktemp --tmpdir "$file3")
fi
#convert to txt and compare using meld
doit(){ #to solve __space__ between filenames and parallel
ebook-convert $1
}
export -f doit
if [ "$#" -gt 2 ]
then
(parallel doit ::: "$1 $TMPFILE1" \
"$2 $TMPFILE2" \
"$3 $TMPFILE3" ) &&
(meld "$TMPFILE1" "$TMPFILE2" "$TMPFILE3")
else
(parallel doit ::: "$1 $TMPFILE1" \
"$2 $TMPFILE2" ) &&
(meld "$TMPFILE1" "$TMPFILE2")
fiMade sure the owner is me and it has execution permissions:
sudo chown $USER:$USER /usr/local/bin/diffepub
sudo chmod 700 /usr/local/bin/diffepubRun it on two pdf files:
diffdoc FILE1.pdf FILE2.pdf
