From h.wickham at gmail.com  Fri Apr 30 16:59:30 2010
From: h.wickham at gmail.com (hadley wickham)
Date: Fri, 30 Apr 2010 09:59:30 -0500
Subject: [Rd] Most recent R manuals [Was: Likely disruption to R-devel
	builds on Windows]
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> My script is very NEWS specific. ?The manuals would be harder. ?You could
> get the diffs from svn pretty easily, but displaying them would be trickier:
> ?do you display the diffs in the .texi source, or convert to HTML and
> display the diffs there, or what? ?How much context around them? ?Not
> impossible, but not trivial.

I suspect the best combination of ease and quality of output would be
to output the texi to plain text, and then diff that.   I really like
the existing RNEWS format, but I guess you split the news into
individual entries and only display those with any changes.  It would
be a bit harder to do with general output, although maybe splitting
into paragraphs would be sufficient.

Hadley

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[Rd] Most recent R manuals [Was: Likely disruption to R-devel builds on Windows]
hadley wickham