README.md

A thesis template that approximates the style guidelines of the University of Leeds.

How to produce a version of your thesis showing changes (for sending to your examiners to show you've done your corrections)

I used \include to split up my files while writing so using the latexdiff program on the web was insufficient in this case. Fortunately I had a local installation of TeX Live, so I used that. This worked on my university computer (MS Windows 11) that I didn't have admin rights for, since TeX Live comes bundled with the perl stuff necessary.

1. Make a separate copy of the initial thesis before making any corrections, which we'll need later.
2. Make all changes to the "new" version, and carry on until happy.
3. From the TeX Live command-line program, produce a version of your old and new thesis versions from your copies without the \include commands as one whole document using latexpand, which comes bundled with TeX Live. This didn't work using the command prompt, I needed the TeX Live command line.

latexpand initial_thesis\main.tex > initial_thesis\old.tex

latexpand thesis\main.tex > thesis\new.tex

3. Now run latexdiff on these two docs to produce a document showing your changes, as desired. We're running locally here (don't mind the precious things) so no need to worry about Overleaf timeouts, or lack of pretty-ness, as this is just to show your examiners that you've made your corrections.

latexdiff initial_thesis\old.tex thesis\new.tex > diff.tex

4. Now compile diff.tex as desired (either locally (why not?) or upload to Overleaf etc.)