[TYPO3-dev] Finding Updates in Manuals

[Daniel Bruessler]

Hi michael,

I tested the compare-feature of OpenOffice 2.3.1 and two manuals: TSref 
and pear.

The diff works for:
* changes in texts
* changes in headers
* changes in code-blocks

The diff has problems when something has changed within a table. Then 
it's double: First the new one, then the old one.

=> For general extension manuals it's OK to use the .sxw-document to 
compare. For big tables like TSref it's OK to save both (version 4.0 and 
4.1) as "Text .txt" and compare that.

Examples:
* JSMENUITEM was on page 122, now on page 130
* stat_apache_niceTitle now boolean, not string
* baseURL without trailing slash

Cheers!
Daniel

> Hi Daniel,
> 
>> I just saw that it's a built-in feature of OpenOffice!! Just click the
>> menu "Bearbeiten/ Dokument vergleichen" (in english something like
>> "Edit/ Diff Compare").
>>
>> Also something else what we could use if we like: "Bearbeiten/
>> Änderungen aufzeichnen" (english "Edit / Track Changes")
> 
> As I said: It doesn't work with changes inside (embedded) tables. At least
> it didn't when I tried it the last time... Just try to make a diff of TSref
> 4.0 and 4.1!
> 
> - michael