Re: diff files
On 2025-10-02, Russell L. Harris <russell@rlharris.org> wrote:
> 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
>
I was unaware of this Perl script. I do use latex. Thanks for the hint.
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