Message-ID: <m2pf8e6ff051004300759va73c50d4j2776a9318fbd09c2@mail.gmail.com>
Date: 2010-04-30T14:59:30Z
From: Hadley Wickham
Subject: Most recent R manuals [Was: Likely disruption to R-devel builds on Windows]
In-Reply-To: <4BDAEBA0.1010903@stats.uwo.ca>
> My script is very NEWS specific. ?The manuals would be harder. ?You could
> get the diffs from svn pretty easily, but displaying them would be trickier:
> ?do you display the diffs in the .texi source, or convert to HTML and
> display the diffs there, or what? ?How much context around them? ?Not
> impossible, but not trivial.
I suspect the best combination of ease and quality of output would be
to output the texi to plain text, and then diff that. I really like
the existing RNEWS format, but I guess you split the news into
individual entries and only display those with any changes. It would
be a bit harder to do with general output, although maybe splitting
into paragraphs would be sufficient.
Hadley
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