On Thu, 6 Apr 2023 Susmita/Rajib wrote: [trimmed: email headers included in message body]
[ ... ] Dear Mr. Davidson, I think that we better drop this thread for the time being.
We are each of us the masters of our respective time and attention, and thank ${DEITY[@]} for that. I look forward to your return.
I have written to Sascha Steinbiss, the Maintainer, icdiff in debian repo, with the links to the specific emails of this thread.
As I have already said, I believe that will prove to be an unproductive line of attack on the text processing problem which confronts you.
I am sure, the brilliant programmer that he is, he would heed to our indications and would come up with something apt in the near future.
I suspect that you underestimate your own potential learn how to use the tools at your disposal. At least as regards the elementary (and potentially instructive) text processing problem you have presented here.
I am more concerned about your wasting so much of your precious energy into the matter
This form of politeness is lost on me, where one pretends that expedience for oneself is expedience for another. I do what I please. Rely on it.
that has to be solved from within the program itself,
It does not. Transforming the input is a trivial operation.
programmatically by tweaking the source code, rather than using scripts.
I refer you back to previous expository comments about tools, and the productivity of compositionality. [trimmed: more gracious externalisation of responsibility]
I apologise that I could not explain more on the text as they form a part of my book and also my research papers
What indicates a "paragraph break" in a given style depends on the form, not the content, of the material to be processed. It is the style of paragraph that you must reveal here if iterative guesswork has become tiresome, not the content of your researches.
which requires the services of an editor.
You wish to display, in a form enabling your review, the differences between your own copy of a text and an editor's revision. This requires the services of your computer. Which is why you have sought help here, appropriately enough.
Since I am an independent researcher, I post my articles in vixra.org.
Good luck with your researches. -- Hackers are free people. They are like artists. If they are in a good mood, they get up in the morning and begin painting their pictures. -- Vladimir Putin