On 2025-10-02, Russell L. Harris <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Oct 02, 2025 at 04:27:47PM -0000, Greg wrote: >>On 2025-10-02, [email protected] <[email protected]> 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.
