Re: getting out of LaTeX

"Aidan" == Aidan Kehoe <kehoea@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

Aidan> Ar an naoú lá is fiche de mí Lúnasa, scríobh des small:

>> [...] Is there a source control system that handles esoteric
>> things like not having the 'line' as a unit in its diff
>> algorithm?

Aidan> Not to my knowledge; diff is a hard problem, it only looks
Aidan> easy because Larry Wall implemented it.

No. Minimal editing sequence is a very standard algorithm covered by
many textbooks on algorithms.


Aidan> Whereas Emacs is an easy problem, it looks hard because
Aidan> Richard Stallman had so much to do with implementing it.

Emacs is not a problem. It's a solution to many problems. :)


>> As for a system that handles opaque binary objects (e.g. native
>> Word files), I would expect that to be slightly non-trivial.

Aidan> What? The rsync algorithm is well-known.

Rsync doesn't handle things in _text units_ (e.g. word, sentence,
paragraph). It treats " " and "a" alike.



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