[darcs-users] locking

Daniel Bünzli daniel.buenzli at epfl.ch
Sat Feb 25 18:47:17 UTC 2006


I think you misunderstood me (if it is not the case then I'm not able  
to make any sense of your message). I was not talking about  
paragraphs in the result of the compilation. I was talking about  
paragraphs at the source code level.

Regards,

Daniel

Le 23 févr. 06 à 14:29, rmuschall a écrit :

> 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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