A wrapper of latexdiff to compare two version of an arXiv preprint with a single command.
Disclaimer: This is a beta version. Despite extensive testing, it does not work for all preprints on arXiv.
You can install comparxiv via
pip install comparxiv
or direct from source.
git clone https://github.com/temken/comparxiv.git
cd comparxiv
python setup.py install
There are three ways to run comparxiv:
(A) ID: The easiest way is to simply provide a preprint ID such as
comparxiv hep-ph/0612370
This will compare the two latest versions of the paper.
(B) ID + version: To compare version N with N-1, you can either run
comparxiv 1709.06573vN
or
comparxiv 1709.06573 N
(B) ID + two versions: To compare two specified version N and M, there are also two possible ways to give the input. Either
comparxiv 1905.06348 N M
or
comparxiv 1905.06348vN M
The order of the two arguments (N and M) matters, the second version (M) is interpreted as the new version.
A successful run will generate a pdf and open it.
For more details and options, run
comparxiv --help
- python and pip
- a tex distribution with pdflatex and latexdiff (*)
- argparse (**)
- arxiv (**)
- requests (**)
- tqdm (**)
(*) Are part of any tex distribution, which can be installed on Linux e.g. via
sudo apt-get install texlive-fullor on macOS e.g. using homebrew.
brew cask install mactex(**): Get installed automatically via pip, if necessary.
- v0.1 (24/04/2020): First version released.
Planned features
- comparison of figures
- support of latex papers on biorxiv (?)
The author of this script is Timon Emken.
For questions, bug reports or other suggestions please contact emken@chalmers.se.
This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE file.
I am grateful for this useful tutorial by Scott Torborg about python packaging.