> Have you found the Track Changes and Track Text Edits features in FM 
> inadequate in some ways?
No, not at all... *when I’m working in FrameMaker*. And I’ve also used the PDF 
compare utility, which has improved immensely over the years.
But I’m wishing to do something totally different, outside of the 
FrameMaker/Acrobat environment: see the diffs of modified files while using a 
Git GUI client to scroll through a bunch of commits. I wish to see the diffs in 
the FrameMaker files in the same way that I see the diffs in source code files. 
But diff programs (whether built into a given Git client such as SourceTree, or 
separate programs such as BeyondCompare that can be integrated into most Git 
clients) cannot do their work on the binary FM files; they operate on 
ascii/text-based files.
And as others have pointed out, there are many ExtendScript snippets “out 
there” that provide good examples of how to perform an action in response to an 
event. So (when I have the time) I can adapt those scripts to save a file as 
text (the action) whenever a FM file is saved (the event).
Thanks everyone for the big MIF education; whenever I get around to doing this 
(likely not for at least several weeks), I’ll post the results.
-Monique
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