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I am trying to decide whether to choose trackchanges or latexdiff for corrections on my thesis. Can anyone tell me their views? I have had problems with latexdiff choking on equations (is there any easy way out of that?).

When someone says 

"compile it with track-change option"

do they mean specifically trackchange or could it also be for latexdiff?

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It's not necessary to begin your questions with a greeting. – lockstep Mar 26 '11 at 21:44
Are both not quite different? latexdiff marks changes between two versions of a file automatically and trackchanges seems to be for manually tracking changes, or do I see that wrong? – Martin Scharrer♦ Mar 26 '11 at 21:53
@Martin Scharrer: they are different, I have only used one and want to know if there is any need to try Trackchanges. – Vass Mar 26 '11 at 21:59
@Martin: Could you make your comment here an answer? It's as close as we are likely to come to one! – Joseph Wright♦ May 29 '11 at 15:28
@Joseph: Now done. – Martin Scharrer♦ May 29 '11 at 15:51

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Both packages seem to be quite different. latexdiff marks changes between two versions of a file automatically and trackchanges seems to be for manually tracking changes.

I don't think a person telling you to "compile it with track-change option" means automatically to use the trackchanges packages. I would just ask this person if you are in doubt. You should be able to review made changes, so I would recommend to use a version control software like Subversion or Git or one of the many others so you can access older versions easily. I personally use then latexdiff to display the differences between two revisions.

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