2004-01-09 08:26:12 UTC
It would be great if winmerge could (as the first program ever) compare LaTeX files correctly. When words are added or deleted in a paragraph the whole paragraph is usually re-wrapped, e.g.:
The man walked
down the road
to buy some
beer for his
wife.
becomes:
The drunk man
walked down
the road to
buy some
beer for his
wife.
As you can see only a single word has changed, but all lines will be different.
If you could make winmerge ignore single LF-CR (interpret them as (white) space) and only consider double LF-CR (two linefeeds are the paragraph divider in LaTeX) it would probably work.
Would it be possible?
Sincerely,
Morten