{"id":21072,"date":"2018-05-21T06:55:23","date_gmt":"2018-05-21T05:55:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jurnsearch.wordpress.com\/?p=21072"},"modified":"2018-05-21T06:55:23","modified_gmt":"2018-05-21T05:55:23","slug":"how-to-compare-two-texts-side-by-side","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/2018\/05\/21\/how-to-compare-two-texts-side-by-side\/","title":{"rendered":"How to compare two texts side by side"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>How to compare two texts side by side, with line sync and more:<\/p>\n<p><strong>1.<\/strong> Get the free <a href=\"https:\/\/notepad-plus-plus.org\/\">32-bit Notepad ++<\/a>.  It must be the 32-bit version.  Install, open, then close the software.<\/p>\n<p><strong>2.<\/strong> Get the free <a href=\"https:\/\/sourceforge.net\/projects\/npp-plugins\/files\/ComparePlugin\/\">ComparePlugin for Notepad ++<\/a>, which no longer ships with the software by default.  Download the Unicode version, currently &#8216;Compare_1_5_6_UNI_dll.zip&#8217;.  This is a 32-bit plugin and it cannot run with the 64-bit Notepad ++.<\/p>\n<p><strong>3.<\/strong> Unzip the plugin and extract <strong>ComparePlugin.dll<\/strong>, somewhere outside of C:\\Program Files.  Then copy\/paste <strong>ComparePlugin.dll<\/strong> to&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><em>C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Notepad++\\plugins<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>4.<\/strong> Restart Notepad ++.  Open two files you wish to compare.<\/p>\n<p><strong>5.<\/strong> From the top menu in Notepad ++, run Compare from the Plugins menu&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/2018\/05\/compare.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/2018\/05\/compare.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"529\" height=\"364\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-21073\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>You get sophisticated line-matching, line-synchronisation, and yet also clear identification of non-matching lines in either document.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How to compare two texts side by side, with line sync and more: 1. Get the free 32-bit Notepad ++. &hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/2018\/05\/21\/how-to-compare-two-texts-side-by-side\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-jurn-tips-and-tricks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21072","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21072"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21072\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}