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Adam Wiggins

Diffs for writing!

Our latest from the Patchwork lab notebook: inkandswitch.com/patchwork/not
24 February at 10:28 | Open on mas.to
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Adam Wiggins

Strikethrough changes are often hard to read. Here's one attempt at a solution.

24 February at 10:29 | Open on mas.to
Adam Wiggins

Text replacement is treated as its own case, since it's so common in copyediting.

The sidebar shows that "35" was replaced with "over 100," rather than a deletion followed by an addition.
24 February at 10:29 | Open on mas.to
Adam Wiggins

Diff summaries are used in source control (+added/-deleted) but rarely in writing tools.

Here's some experiments for summarizing a set of changes on a long document.
24 February at 10:30 | Open on mas.to
Scott Jenson

@adamwiggins this feels quite close to what we did for Upwelling. We used a ➰ symbol though instead of a delete symbol. Is there a nuance here that I'm missing?

24 February at 10:43 | Open on social.coop
Adam Wiggins

@scottjenson Upwelling is a big influence, we're building on those ideas! We've referenced it already in the notebook, I'm sure we'll be doing so again in future posts.

24 February at 11:09 | Open on mas.to
Internet Hedgehog

@adamwiggins this is so much nicer than what gdocs/word do

24 February at 10:37 | Open on mastodon.social
Internet Hedgehog

@adamwiggins A thought: Google Docs and such have a way to add suggestions - edits that will need to be approved to be fully inserted into the document. I wonder if this can map to pull requests in a workflow like this?

24 February at 10:42 | Open on mastodon.social
Adam Wiggins

@Ezhik Funny you should ask, our next batch of experiments will touch on these points.

24 February at 11:11 | Open on mas.to
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