[darcs-users] locking
rmuschall
rmuschall at tecont.de
Thu Feb 23 13:29:15 UTC 2006
Daniel Bünzli <daniel.buenzli at epfl.ch> wrote:
> The diff result of a tex file is generally not what really changed in
> the text -- what you are interested in -- but how the line by line
> layout of the paragraph changed in the source, which makes it hard to
> identify the actual textual change : word or sentence changes in a
> paragraph.
>
> Diffing tex files first paragraph-wise and then, in paragraphs, token-
> wise would report textual changes more accurately and make conflicts
> much less frequent and easier to solve. One would then not try to
> resort to locking to avoid conflicts.
Something like this would be wrong if we are inside
\begin{verbatim}...\end{verbatim} or similar.
Since [La]TeX is Turing-complete, detecting these places can
be arbitrarily hard (but is certainly possible, e.g. by
reimplementing TeX ;-)).
Ralf
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