On 2 mars 2012, at 18:12, Jambunathan K wrote: > Sometime back while looking at change tracking within OpenDocument > files, I stumbled upon the following two entries. > > http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Track_changes#Google_Summer_of_Code_2009:_Improve_Writer.27s_compare_function > > http://gsoc-tzvetelina.blogspot.in/ > > In the above blog, the author is talking about paragraphs as a unit and > makes a note of the algorithms he uses to narrow down the paragraphs of > interest. I think in Org's context, outline could (also) be considered > as a unit.
If I may advertise some things I did a while back, which may be useful to convert between textual formats: http://www.seas.upenn.edu/~harmony/ We also worked on a synchronizing algorithm that mixed diff3 with our tree synchronizer. I could try to dig that up as well. Alan