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Re: diff files



On Thu, Oct 02, 2025 at 04:27:47PM -0000, Greg wrote:
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.


In this category, latexdiff has been of great help to me.  RLH


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