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  1. 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
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