Re: Finding differences between files.

Subject: Re: Finding differences between files.
From: Lee Hunter <lee -dot- hunter -at- hum -dot- com>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Date: Fri, 03 Sep 2004 16:06:00 -0400



Quoting carthur <carthur000 -at- sympatico -dot- ca>:



One of our developers sent me the following question:

"Is there a document file format/tool that the developers could use for
feature specifications where we can easily diff doc versions? Something a
little more sophisticated than a plain text file and less annoying than
word?"

I've seen wikis used in Open Source projects.

Wikipedia, although it's not technical writing per se, provides a good example of what can be done with wikis (it now has well over 300,000 articles).

An article

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crushing_by_elephant

The history page

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Crushing_by_elephant&action=history



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References:
Finding differences between files.: From: carthur
Re: Finding differences between files.: From: Bruce Byfield

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