Re: Meld with LaTeX files

["Stephen Kennedy" <stevek gnome org>]

Hi Mark,

As you know, meld and most other diff tools work on a line-by-line
basis. A filter to join lines into a paragraph won't work because
there's no code to map the "joined differences" back to where they
came from.

Your only option at the moment is to preproces the files to have
paragraphs on a single line and use a automatic formatter to reflow
afterwards. Hardly ideal :(

Stephen.

On 9/28/06, Mark Edgington <edgimar lycos com> wrote:
> I think it would be a nice feature of Meld if it could ignore carriage-returns
> and line-feeds in files.  This is advantageous for comparing latex files since
> usually you want to compare on a word-by-word basis, and not necessarily
> line-by-line.  I tried adding a text filter to do this, but it seems not to be
> possible. (?)  Does anyone else use Meld for comparing TeX files?
>
> -Mark
>
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