[TxMt] [offtopic] Compare text files based on words not lines

[Nicolas Weber]

Hi,

> 1) finding a writing environment  that disregards formatting, is easy
> to learn and easy to read while writing.
> 2) Some kind of support for bibliography tools should be incorporated.
> No hidden field functions that only work (hmm, work...) in some
> versions of Word and screw up everything every now and then. Plain
> text, please.
> 3) a tool that would point out where changes have been made by others.
> By this I mean both sublte changes like insertion of a word or a
> paragraph somewhere, but also more complex changes such as a sentence
> or a paragraph that has been moved elsewhere.
> 4) all this would need to keep working (for me) even when
> collaborating with others who prefer other tools. I very rarely write
> all on my own, so a solution that would only work if everybody else
> would use the same tools would not improve anything.

you could take a look at lyx. It's a graphical front-end to latex,  
which means you don't have to know latex to use it (well...most of  
the time at least). lyx would solve 1 and 2, and help with 4 (there  
are several import/export filters; I don't know how good they work,  
though).

Bye,
Nico