Hi :) Thanks :) So prolly not hugely useful for LibreOffice or MS formats. LibreOffice does have a couple of tools built-in. There is a "Track changes" and a "Compare Documents" but we occasionally get a thread grumbling about them not being perfect. It's pretty rare but when i stumbled across mention of Meld recently upgrading i wondered if it might be a good answer next time we get a grumble.
It sounds like Meld had a few issues itself but their announcement suggests that they have recently fixed tons of problems so it might be worth another try for non-Office stuff. Anyway, thanks for the feedback, it's good to have feedback from someone with useful experience. Thanks and regards from Tom :) ________________________________ From: Paul <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Wednesday, 18 September 2013, 0:39 Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Hi Tom, I use Meld (and have used a few others). Haven't used it (or any of the others) for LO or MS Office files, though. It's pretty good for plain text files like config files or source code. I've used it on generated files before (Visual Studio form files), and it was helpful, but blocks of text that were the same tended to be moved around arbitrarily, and showed up as differences in the file. I'm not sure how much of a problem that would be with LO source files, but in theory it should be helpful for determining if two copies of a file are different, and by how much. That might allow you to determine which version is more recent, that sort of thing. Ideally I suppose one would want an LO viewer that allowed one to load two files side-by-side, and scroll them in tandem. Maybe even have differences, additions and deletions highlighted. A custom LO diff tool, essentially. But short of that, something like Meld is probably going to be useful. Paul On Tue, 17 Sep 2013 18:54:53 +0100 (BST) Tom Davies <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi :) > Has anyone used "Meld" > > http://meldmerge.org/ > to compare ODF documents (or ones using an MS format). From their > screen-shots it looks great for text-editors and might be fantastic > if it does work for ODF. > > Just wondered > > a) if anyone had tried it and > > b) if anyone thought it might be better to have an external tool > that compared a wide range of file-typesrather than just relying on > different in-built ones in different programs. > > Regards from > > Tom :) -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
