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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),
by 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 agoThanks, 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 agoIf 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 agoThere was a script for latex which took two versions of latex files and compiled them to a pdf with changebar's
- ygra 13y agoAptly named latexdiff: http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/support/latexdiff/ http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/support/latexdiff/ Oops, already mentioned below.
- SlyShy 13y agoHey, 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 agoThe more the merrier! https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!forum/versioned-writing https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!forum/versioned...
- anonymouz 13y agoLatexdiff has often worked pretty well for me.