OOo Compare: Inadequate | Linux Today

OOo Compare: Inadequate

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Mar 13, 2009

[ Thanks to Brendan Scott for this
link. ]

“By way of a test I took two similar clauses and saved
them to separate text files. I then used OpenOffice’s compare
function to show the changes. This was the output…

“Despite there being some commonality between the two clauses –
eg “may invoice” are the second and third words of both clauses,
OpenOffice simply marked the whole thing as a change. The clauses
are each less than 60 words – a markup should not be difficult. The
output is unhelpful and this sort of output from compare is not
unusual for OpenOffice.”


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