Track Changes in LaTeX with trackchanges

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Note: TrackChanges is not part of TeX Live, and hasn't been updated in a while. Instead, changes.sty, a package for the same purpose, is available in TeX Live and more recent. You can find the example template here.

TrackChanges is a package for collaboratively editing LaTeX documents which allows multiple editors to make changes & add annotations to a document.

Here we present a short example of it's use, which you can use as a template to get started.

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Track Changes in LaTeX with trackchanges

\documentclass[12pt]{article}
\usepackage[utf8x]{inputenc}
\usepackage[english]{babel}
\usepackage[margins]{trackchanges}

\title{Example: trackchanges}
\author{writeLaTeX}

\addeditor{JLM}
\addeditor{JH}

\begin{document}
\maketitle

Lorem ipsum \add[JLM]{dolor sit amet}, consectetur adipiscing elit. Integer luctus molestie hendrerit. Nullam id consequat turpis. Curabitur vitae suscipit ipsum, et lobortis quam. Curabitur convallis scelerisque erat, a pellentesque eros luctus dapibus. \remove[JH]{Suspendisse consectetur ligula in rutrum pellentesque.} Cras hendrerit vel nunc non consequat. Curabitur nec est dolor. Cras vulputate commodo augue, sit amet tempus diam posuere a. Cras eget libero placerat, consequat justo non, consequat diam. Fusce nisi turpis, dictum vel eros nec, egestas imperdiet tellus. Duis non ligula velit. \annote[JH]{Proin a lectus vestibulum, mollis eros id, vehicula mauris.}{Suspendisse nec tellus tellus.}

Phasellus molestie accumsan rhoncus. Mauris eu turpis non leo rutrum tempus ut sed dolor. Vestibulum ante ipsum primis in faucibus orci luctus et ultrices posuere cubilia Curae; \change[JLM]{Donec et massa in arcu sagittis posuere a a erat.}{Vivamus tincidunt nec purus vitae porttitor.} Pellentesque molestie dolor ultrices tincidunt mollis. In hac habitasse platea dictumst. Aliquam molestie, sem eu suscipit pharetra, odio turpis tristique odio, molestie egestas sapien massa in elit. \note[JLM]{Fusce eget sagittis eros. Donec a posuere elit, vitae congue augue.}Donec semper mi felis, id cursus turpis pretium in.

Donec lacinia dolor dui, rutrum tempus sapien adipiscing a. Proin at laoreet nisi. Phasellus elementum erat nisl, at consequat nisi pretium ullamcorper. Pellentesque in neque ligula. Mauris vitae aliquet enim. Phasellus lobortis velit in tortor condimentum porta. Proin aliquam consequat venenatis. Class aptent taciti sociosqu ad litora torquent per conubia nostra, per inceptos himenaeos. Vivamus condimentum urna in mauris venenatis congue. Integer non mi tincidunt, vestibulum leo in, consectetur leo. 

\end{document}