Date: Tue, 24 Aug 1999 19:50:38 -0400 From: Tim Vanderhoek <vanderh@ecf.utoronto.ca> To: Nik Clayton <nik@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: DocBook formatting style? Message-ID: <19990824195038.D8869@ppp18415.on.bellglobal.com> In-Reply-To: <19990824172812.L65430@kilt.nothing-going-on.org>; from Nik Clayton on Tue, Aug 24, 1999 at 05:28:12PM %2B0100 References: <19990822200737.A65807@ppp18344.on.bellglobal.com> <19990823141611.A1770@catkin.nothing-going-on.org> <19990823172005.C42397@ppp18344.on.bellglobal.com> <19990824172812.L65430@kilt.nothing-going-on.org>
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On Tue, Aug 24, 1999 at 05:28:12PM +0100, Nik Clayton wrote:
>
> If we had a "sentence oriented" diff, it might be persuaded to blank out
> the first and third sentences, because although their position in the file
> has changed, their content has not.
As a hack, you could do
perl -pe 's/\<[^>]+\>//g; s/[\n\t ]+/ /g; s/[!?,.]/$&\n/g; ' | perl -pe 's/\s{2,}/ /g' < Englishfile1 > a
perl -pe 's/\<[^>]+\>//g; s/[\n\t ]+/ /g; s/[!?,.]/$&\n/g; ' | perl -pe 's/\s{2,}/ /g' < Englishfile2 > b
diff [-uc] a b
That actually seems to work reasonably well for some changes. For
other changes, it can make the diffs more confusing.
[Don't mind the perl regexp --- perl and I weren't getting along today...]
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