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From: Ken Mankoff <mankoff@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: How to create synopsis output of versioned text?
Date: Wed, 20 May 2015 16:21:55 -0400
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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