You can then compile difs.tex as you would any other tex file. Latexdiff oldVersion.tex newVersion.tex > difs.tex This is much easier to read than directly comparing the tex source files.
Git is open-source version tracking software usually used for programming. One of the best decisions I ever made in my scientific career was to start using git for tracking changes to my papers. bib file, and cite it using the \cite command.
If you want to cite a paper, simply go to the journal’s website, download the bibtex snippet that goes with the paper, copy and paste it into your. The beauty of BibTeX is that you need never again concern yourself with the formatting or ordering of your citations because BibTeX does that all automatically.
BasicTeX does not include all the packages I need, but it includes a package manager tlmgr that can be used to download any additional packages using the command: sudo tlmgr install PackageName BibTeXįor producing my bibliography I use BibTeX, an extension of LaTeX.
The full MacTeX installer is over 3.2 gb, and most of that is for obscure packages and languages that I’ll never need, so I use the smaller installer called BasicTeX, which is only 78 mb. The LaTeX distribution for macOS is called MacTeX.
Since I am a lifelong Apple fanboy, I do all my work on a Mac. My preferred TeX editor is TeXShop, but I don’t have strong opinions about it, it’s just what I know. Instead, I will offer a few remarks on how I use LaTeX in my work and some of the tips and tricks I’ve learned over the years. There is no shortage of guides to learning and using LaTeX which I will not try to replicate here. Since college I have used LaTeX for all my technical writing including papers, my dissertation, and ongoing notes on my work. The learning curve is a bit steep, but well worth the efforts. But if you’re a physicist, you should be using LaTeX. If this doesn’t sound like something you need, then you can go ahead and skip this post. For the uninitiated, LaTeX (pronounced lah-tek or lay-tek, anything but lay-teks) is a markup language widely used in the physics community because it allows authors to create automatically-formatted manuscripts complete with beautifully typeset equations, footnotes, references, figures, captions and more. When I write almost anything related to physics, I use LaTeX.