<br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 6/24/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">DM Smith</b> <<a href="mailto:dmsmith555@yahoo.com">dmsmith555@yahoo.com</a>> wrote:</span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div style=""><div><span class="q"><blockquote type="cite">I wonder how easy it would be to get it to color views with changes? I guess its a feature request and not a bug.</blockquote><br></span>Trivial. Just not sure what would work well.
</div></div></blockquote></div><br><br>I guess there are several options.<br>For only 2 versions, we could change the background color whenever the text wasn't the same as the other version. I guess this is somewhat similar to what the eclipse diff viewer does (the eclipse viewer has to cope with large sections of deleted text which we have less of a problem with). When comparing 2 dissimilar versions, you'd just get solid color, (or maybe annoying random uncolored matches)
<br><br>For more than 2 versions you could consider a really complex coloring scheme to say - different to X, but not Y, and other variants. But I expect that would be too confusing, and I can't see it working for more than 4 versions anyway. It's probably better to consider the first version to be the reference, and only color versions 2-n where they differ from version 1.
<br><br>The other option, would be to markup the text of versions 2-n using a insert/delete style:<br><br>Version 1 (reference): KJV<br>In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth<br><br>Version 2: ESV<br>In the beginning God created the
<span style="color: rgb(192, 192, 192);">heaven</span> <span style="font-weight: bold;">heavens</span> and the earth<br><br>(In case you can't see the formatting - in the second version the work heaven (deleted from the KJV) is in grey, and the word heavens (inserted) is in bold).
<br><br>One issue to consider would be the level of detail to report. Do you include punctuation differences? Missing footnotes, altered footnote text differences? etc.<br>I always thought it slightly superfluous when the AV/RV interlinear Bibles took the time to point out that the KJV used a : where the RV used a ;.
<br><br>Seriously though - it's a feature request, a nice to have, probably not important for 1.0.7<br><br>Joe.<br><br>