What’s new in version 6.1005 | PageSeeder User Guide

Key point: Diff notation for changes in preformat and improved pasting.

Diff in pre-formatted text

We’ve enhanced the role dialog to more accurately detect the language associated with each role and allow the use of diff notation alongside other programming languages.

Feature – Role dialog for preformat (v6.1005)

The diff notation lets you highlight changes in pre-formatted text by using specific characters at the start of each line to indicate whether it has been inserted, deleted, modified, or left unchanged.

A + at the beginning of a line marks an insertion, while a - indicates a deletion. You can also use an exclamation mark (!) to flag a line as modified. Lines starting with a space are assumed to be unchanged.

Prefix	Effect
`+` or `>`	Mark the whole line as inserted
`-` or `<`	Mark the whole line as deleted
`!`	Make the whole line as modified
(space)	Mark as unchanged

You can combine the diff syntax with any other supported language. For example, you can specify the role as lang-diff-xml to use the diff syntax to mark differences and use XML syntax highlighting at the same time.

Use the diff notation in edit mode, as in the following example:

Feature – Diff notation in edit mode (v6.1005)

In view mode, the differences are highlighted:

Feature – Diff syntax in preformat block (v6.1005)

This feature allows you to manually mark changes in pre-formatted text as part of the content, and operates independently from the compare function, which automatically detects differences throughout the content.

Improved pasting

We’ve fixed a number of issues when pasting content into the editor so that it is more reliable to paste content containing xrefs, transclusions, and pre-formatted text content.