better diff tool?

[Fred Wersan]

I've been thinking about using Framescript to do something to all edited 
text to make it stand out, for example, underline it or apply a 
condition. That would separate out the real changes from the other 
things that change bars pick up, but which don't really matter for 
reviewing updated doc.

After the review cycle is over, I would get rid of the underlines or 
whatever.

Haven't done it yet, though, so I can't say how well it would work. I'm 
not sure what I would do about deletions.

An alternative which might work for your engineers would be to save the 
files as text (or export to HTML or XML) before and after and let them 
use the diff tools they are comfortable with. Formatting probably 
wouldn't matter much, you'd just care about what was changed. Ugly, but 
maybe doable.

Fred
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Fred Wersan
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