Re: diff files
On 2025-10-02, rhkramer@gmail.com <rhkramer@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> * Somewhat OT, but for the sake of something (completeness) I'd like to
> also mention word diffs which (1) are often more useful for human readers of
> text (as opposed to programs), as (2) they show (or try to show) differences by
> individual word, with markup to indicated added words, deleted words, or
> changed words (depending on the specific word diff program utilized) (wdiff is
> one available in *nix). (Some of the programs do not always represent the
> changes in the best possible way, e.g., sometimes showing, e.g., long portions
> of text deleted and then re-added when they have only been moved in the
> document.)
>
Right. I tried to use diff for word and syntactical changes, but the
verbose output and the diff by line seemed to make the app impracticable
for literary (in the broadest sense!) use.
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