How to create synopsis output of versioned text?

How to create synopsis output of versioned text?

[Martin Weigele]

When dealing with different versions of text, e.g. old and new (law) code, it 
is sometimes nice to be able to create a synopsis of the versions of the text 
in tabular form.

Any suggestions how to do this in emacs orgmode? Yes I know you can manually 
do tables, and you could call unix diff, but something that does it 
automatically from the individual text versions with a tabular output - old 
version left, new version right column, with similar sections or code pieces 
matching in the same row would be cool. As a last resort, even outside 
orgmode. :)

Martin

Re: How to create synopsis output of versioned text?

[Ken Mankoff]

I use 'latexdiff' for this, but it does not have a side-by-side option.

  -k.

On 2015-05-20 at 14:13, Martin Weigele <martin@weigele.de> wrote:
> When dealing with different versions of text, e.g. old and new (law) code, it 
> is sometimes nice to be able to create a synopsis of the versions of the text 
> in tabular form.
>
> Any suggestions how to do this in emacs orgmode? Yes I know you can manually 
> do tables, and you could call unix diff, but something that does it 
> automatically from the individual text versions with a tabular output - old 
> version left, new version right column, with similar sections or code pieces 
> matching in the same row would be cool. As a last resort, even outside 
> orgmode. :)
>
> Martin

Re: How to create synopsis output of versioned text?

[Martin Weigele]

Thanks Ken, your wording "side-by-side-options" helped me now tracking down 
emacs "ediff" (M-x ediff-files). But this probably won't do the trick of side-
by-side output other than on screen.

Am Mittwoch, 20. Mai 2015, 16:21:55 schrieben Sie:
> I use 'latexdiff' for this, but it does not have a side-by-side option.
> 
>   -k.
> 
> On 2015-05-20 at 14:13, Martin Weigele <martin@weigele.de> wrote:
> > When dealing with different versions of text, e.g. old and new (law) code,
> > it is sometimes nice to be able to create a synopsis of the versions of
> > the text in tabular form.
> > 
> > Any suggestions how to do this in emacs orgmode? Yes I know you can
> > manually do tables, and you could call unix diff, but something that does
> > it automatically from the individual text versions with a tabular output
> > - old version left, new version right column, with similar sections or
> > code pieces matching in the same row would be cool. As a last resort,
> > even outside orgmode. :)
> > 
> > Martin