I’ve been using an application called ‘WinMerge’ lately for document comparisons, but one of the requirements of my teams script files (for auditing purposes) is that when we release a revision of a script we highlight the changes in red (RTF format I believe, it’s through Lotus Notes) To that end, is there any software that can automatically highlight changes for me or is the best I’m going to get a list of differences and be expected to manually highlight all changes?
I’ve been using an application called WinMerge lately for document comparisons, but one of
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Assuming an HTML+CSS solution meets your needs, this article from Linux Journal shows a shell script that reads diff output and writes an HTML document with colored text highlighting the differences.
On Windows, it would probably work as-is under bash as provided in the MSYS environment from the MinGW folk or in bash from Cygwin. The script itself isn’t too large, I would imagine it could be ported to Perl with only a moderate effort.
Since converting HTML to RTF turns out not to have a trivial solution that I’ve found, you might have better luck porting the script to directly output RTF.