David Cantrell wrote:
> Taking an example at random, it is hard for readers to
> immediately tell what is new and/or changed (especially
> what is changed) between the second and third Camel books.
> As the publishers do not provide the book in electronic
> format, use of diff(1) is prohibitively time-consuming, as it
> involves first scanning both books and proof-reading them for
> OCR errors.
>From what I understand, both second and third Camel were written mostly in
pod. Perhaps if you asked Tom nicely, he'd give you pod sources, which you
could then diff. (And I'm pretty sure there's a diff that works
paragraph-wise, ie ignoring changed line lengths.)
Whether the output would be useful is another question (which you also
addressed), but diff(1)ing is not a difficult (pun not intended) as you make
it appear -- on *this book*, at least.
Cheers,
Philip
