diff for (text only) manuscripts

[François Pinard]

[Jon Slavin]

> This is not Python specific, but it seems that Python offers hope for a
> solution.  [...] a diff that is word as opposed to line oriented.  [...]
> Any suggestions welcome.

This is not really a Python solution, but there is a little tool called
`wdiff', which does a word oriented diff, merely as a C fronted to `diff'.
It is part of GNU, and written at a time I did not know Python. :-)

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François Pinard   http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~pinard