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You know what? I'm gonna start doing this. This is a tool that could help improve journalism in some circumstances. It would help society as well as biz if so

You know what? I'm gonna start doing this. This is a tool that could help improve journalism in some circumstances. It would help society as well as biz if someone made this.

bentoner 13y ago
Cool. We're big fans of what you're doing at DocumentCloud. I originally got into this because I wanted a similar tool for LaTeX (my background is in physics), but after understanding how bad the existing version control tools for business documents were, we just had to start there.
- knowtheory 13y ago
  Thanks, you've picked an interesting niche. Versioning text is an interesting subject, and there appear to be a bunch of tools that are teasing at the problem (many of which get discussed on the Versioned Writing google group), but none of them have really gotten things right yet. A lot of folks have been taking Github as an inspiration, and it's been cool to see what people pick and choose out of the experience.
  - IanChiles 13y ago
    If you use LaTeX and Git - but mandate that each sentence gets its own individual line, it works quite well for versioning, even if its not transparent to the end user
    - jahagirdar 13y ago
      There was a script for latex which took two versions of latex files and compiled them to a pdf with changebar's
      - ygra 13y ago
        Aptly named latexdiff: http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/support/latexdiff/ http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/support/latexdiff/ Oops, already mentioned below.
  - SlyShy 13y ago
    Hey, can you point me to this Google Group? This is a topic I've been very interested in for many years now. I actually wrote this library (https://github.com/zencephalon/Tactful_Tokenizer https://github.com/zencephalon/Tactful_Tokenizer) for sentence tokenization so that I could get Git to work across of sentences instead of lines.
    - knowtheory 13y ago
      The more the merrier! https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!forum/versioned-writing https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!forum/versioned...
- anonymouz 13y ago
  Latexdiff has often worked pretty well for me.

You know what? I'm gonna start doing this. This is a tool that could help improve journalism in some circumstances. It would help society as well as biz if someone made this.

bentoner 13y ago

Cool. We're big fans of what you're doing at DocumentCloud. I originally got into this because I wanted a similar tool for LaTeX (my background is in physics), but after understanding how bad the existing version control tools for business documents were, we just had to start there.

knowtheory 13y ago
Thanks, you've picked an interesting niche. Versioning text is an interesting subject, and there appear to be a bunch of tools that are teasing at the problem (many of which get discussed on the Versioned Writing google group), but none of them have really gotten things right yet. A lot of folks have been taking Github as an inspiration, and it's been cool to see what people pick and choose out of the experience.
- IanChiles 13y ago
  If you use LaTeX and Git - but mandate that each sentence gets its own individual line, it works quite well for versioning, even if its not transparent to the end user
  - jahagirdar 13y ago
    There was a script for latex which took two versions of latex files and compiled them to a pdf with changebar's
    - ygra 13y ago
      Aptly named latexdiff: http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/support/latexdiff/ http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/support/latexdiff/ Oops, already mentioned below.
- SlyShy 13y ago
  Hey, can you point me to this Google Group? This is a topic I've been very interested in for many years now. I actually wrote this library (https://github.com/zencephalon/Tactful_Tokenizer https://github.com/zencephalon/Tactful_Tokenizer) for sentence tokenization so that I could get Git to work across of sentences instead of lines.
  - knowtheory 13y ago
    The more the merrier! https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!forum/versioned-writing https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!forum/versioned...
anonymouz 13y ago
Latexdiff has often worked pretty well for me.