Is there a way to diff files sentence-by-sentence instead of line-by-line?

Question

Just trying to get diff to work better for certain kinds of documents. With LaTeX, for example, I might have a long paragraph that is strictly just one line, but I don\'t want t

Answer 1

Preprocess the files before diffing them. Write a script to write one sentence per line and any line by line diff program will work.

I have done this on a C token level for diffing C code in order to make absolutely sure my CVS merge was correct.