Re: jim, i have some questions about pgdiff output
jim, i've done my best, i really tried, but i just can't see a use-case for your pgdiff. i did rework some of its output, to show how my tool could successfully aid yours, and i am willing to show that, if you want. but i was starting to get the feeling that i was just turning _your_ output into the output generated by _my_ tool, and how does it help us to have identical output? you've said pgdiff is intended for doing comparisons between different editions, and not ones aimed at finding the small differences that happen during proofing. but, as far as i can see, your output gets mired even on the smaller changes, so i can't imagine it's better on bigger ones. just as one example, there's this:
{ [Illustration: } { The } { Bakery } { and } { Shops } { of } { the } { Russians--Later } { the | property. }
that's a line of text from one of the two comparison files, which got chopped into its individual words. i could only imagine the mess if a whole paragraph or section was added in the second comparison file. so, sadly, i just can't find a use-case here. but, you know, if it scratches _your_ itch, that's all that really matters with a tool... -bowerbird p.s. however, i would really like to hear from anyone who employs jim's tool and finds that it helps them with their goals, because if the failure to see a use-case is _my_ failure, i want to know about it.
just as one example, there's this:
{ [Illustration: } { The } { Bakery } { and } { Shops } { of } { the } { Russians--Later } { the | property. }
that's a line of text from one of the two comparison files, which got chopped into its individual words. i could only imagine the mess if a whole paragraph or section was added in the second comparison file.
Absolutely. This is what I have been telling you. If you make a tool that works good for small changes, it doesn't work good for big changes. You said you wanted a tool for small changes, I provided you with the output format that you wanted for small changes, and having provided you with that, now you say you want an output format for big changes. I can try to guess what format you want, and you will always come back and complain. OR you could take my source code, which I posted, and you could modify it to any output format you want. Since I didn't want to deal with this kind of mess when using the output with a regex editor, I generated an output format that doesn't contain this kind of mess. But when I published that format you didn't like that format either. Again, post YOUR source code, and working code examples, and then let's talk about it. You will find that you your tool whatever it is you eventually post someday will also have to deal with these problems, because they are fundamental to the INPUT domain -- how two different files match or do not match and why and what you want to do about it.
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