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Installing latexdiff on a Mac (without having MacTeX installed e.g. if you use an online LaTeX editor):
Install Homebrew, the missing package manager for Mac ->
https://brew.sh/
Install perl -> brew install perl (N.B. this step might not be necessary)
Install latexdiff -> brew install latexdiff
Keep latexdiff up-to-date -> brew upgrade latexdiff
Uninstall ...
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You may need a .sty file, which can be extracted from a .dtx by doing the following:
Go to the folder where the .dtx file is located
Run tex file_name.dtx
This should generate some other files on the current directory, one of which is a .sty file.
You can then move the file_name.sty file directly into your project folder, where a file will use it, or ...
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brew tap caskroom/cask
brew cask install basictex
# close terminal window
# open a new terminal window
xelatex file.tex
Then start writing latex and compiling from the command-line!
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