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Re:Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy by TomatoDash on Sunday March 21, 2021 @08:10AM (#26529828)
SEP is the leading encyclopedia in professional philosophy. I wish the site had a basic diff view e.g. a toggle to highlight all new/modified words in a text since last revision.
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Re:Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy by jbaber on Sunday March 21, 2021 @08:15AM (#26529855)
Download the archives at a politely slow rate, arrange them in a git repo as revisions, and there you go.

I wonder if there's a tool that makes an html view of git history of a document.

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Re:Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy by EllieEffingMae on Sunday March 21, 2021 @09:52AM (#26530431)
You can actually download all their articles as a PDF with a small yearly subscription. If that's not an option I've had good luck with pandoc in the past.
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Re:Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy by mellosouls on Sunday March 21, 2021 @10:17AM (#26530631)
Internet Archive to the rescue:

https://archive.org/web/docucomp.php

Example:

https://web.archive.org/web/diff/20191125162042/202011112130...

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Re:Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy by TomatoDash on Sunday March 21, 2021 @01:26PM (#26532090)
I wasn't aware Wayback Machine had a comparison tool, thank you. I like how its comparison picker view indicates degrees of change relative to a selected snapshot, e.g. https://web.archive.org/web/changes/https://plato.stanford.e...

Worth mentioning: SEP hosts static quarterly snapshots at https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/ , but with no diff feature.

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