On Tue, Aug 23, 2005 at 11:26:43PM +1000, Tim Connors wrote: > On Tue, 23 Aug 2005, Thomas Dickey wrote: > > > On Tue, Aug 23, 2005 at 07:30:09AM +0200, Tim Connors wrote: > > > Package: diff > > > Version: 2.8.1-11 > > > Severity: wishlist > > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > I frequently want to compare the differences between two versions of > > > the same LaTeX file, where small changes in a sentence, combined with > > > reflowing the text within an editor, yield changes to an entire > > > paragraph, as far as diff is concerned. > > > > wdiff is supposed to do this. > > That's beautiful! > > I don't suppose it makes sense to put a pointer to that in the man page?
Perhaps (down in the SEE ALSO section). > I did actually research, but if you perform googlage on the wrong > keywords, then there ain't much luck for you. I happened to know about wdiff since I'd written something like that, in the early 80's. googling for this could be hard, since you have to wonder what keywords to use. Along the same lines would be spiff (which would be interesting to make it work again - it's long unmaintained). > Thanks. no problem. -- Thomas E. Dickey http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net
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