On 05/01/2017 04:42 PM, Richard Owlett wrote:
>
> Background:
> Last week I was asked to be one of the proofreaders of a near final
> draft of a ~1300 word document. IOW the structure and desired content
> were firmly established. Although fluent in English, it is not the
> author's primary language. He had prepared the English text I (and
> others) were reviewing.
>
> Desired specifications:
> 1. It shall have exactly 2 panes.
> 2. Pane 1 shall:
> a. have a verbatim copy of the original text.
> b. assign immutable tags (visible or not) to beginning AND
> end of each paragraph.
> c. be intrinsically READ-ONLY.
> That implies that both text and tags are immutable from
> invocation to invocation.
> 3. Pane 2 shall:
> a. on initial invocation be a byte for byte duplicate [*INCLUDING*
> tags] of the original.
> b. as Pane 2 is edited maintain visual sync of initial paragraph
> start and ultimate edited paragraph extent. [Is that vague ;]
I downloaded omegat and kdiff3-qt { kdiff3 without KDE dependencies }
from the Debian repository. Had a chance to give a QUICK look at both.
Right now it looks like will be the better fit. Will not have chance to
put it through it's paces for a couple days {unrelated problem UGH ;}
Thanks for suggestions received.
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