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Re:What if journalists had story writing tools as powerful a... by runevault on Wednesday December 10, 2014 @10:49AM (#8729765)
Some stuff (revision control) is at least reasonably good, though it depends somewhat on what format you are saving text into. Also since most diff tools work on a new line level it isn't as useful as if they split on say periods/exclamation points/question marks, since those are the real dividing points in any form of writing (journalism/prose at least).
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Re:What if journalists had story writing tools as powerful a... by cpach on Wednesday December 10, 2014 @10:56AM (#8729810)
I agree that prose requires different diffs than source code. Here is an example of how Github tackles that issue: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7240122
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Re:What if journalists had story writing tools as powerful a... by runevault on Wednesday December 10, 2014 @09:24PM (#8732862)
Oh interesting I either had not seen or forgot about this. Good to know thanks!
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