COMPARE VERSIONS · KEEP YOUR REASONS
Method & limits ↗Bring two to four short texts, inspect the differences and choose your final wording. Your originals stay intact; save a project file to keep the choices and the reasons behind them.
A garden is a we make together. Its paths should leave room for a to pause gates should open before anyone has to ask.
Underlined passages have alternatives. Solid purple = selected variant; dotted = unreviewed. The ∅ marker makes empty readings selectable but is not part of exported text.
Base-token locations are zero-based, half-open intervals. An insertion has equal start and end. Empty readings are explicit omissions, not missing evidence.
| Variant | Base range | Chosen reading | Status | Inspect |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | [8, 9) | place | Unreviewed · base retained | |
| 2 | [31, 32) | stranger | Unreviewed · base retained | |
| 3 | [36, 39) | , and | Unreviewed · base retained | |
| 4 | [40, 41) | its | Unreviewed · base retained |
THE METHOD / AND ITS LIMITS
Whitespace runs, letter/mark/number runs, and other Unicode code points form the alignment units. They are not linguistic words or grapheme clusters: CJK runs may stay together and emoji sequences may split. No case folding, trimming or Unicode normalization is applied.
The solver minimizes a fixed affine-gap score separately for each witness. Pairwise optima are not a jointly optimal multi-version alignment. Touching or overlapping changes are grouped conservatively into one locus; repeated text can admit multiple optimal matches. Affine-gap alignment reference ↗
A witness is one supplied version. The alignment base is a coordinate reference, not the best or original text. A selected reading is an editorial judgment. Unselected versions remain intact, and a custom reading is not assigned invented source support.
The TEI guidelines distinguish apparatus entries, preferred readings, alternatives and attesting witnesses. Our export follows those ideas but is not schema-certified; it does not model source damage, manuscript hands, uncertain transcription or historical descent. TEI critical apparatus ↗
Your project stays in tab memory. Refreshing loses unsaved work. Download the project, not just the assembled text, to keep the originals and decisions. Undo/redo retains up to 20 changes in this tab only.
JSON preserves raw strings. XML escapes text and carriage returns; invalid XML characters are rejected explicitly. Native Unicode property classifications can differ between engine versions, so saved decision signatures are checked before reuse. XML 1.0 specification ↗
Use texts you have permission to process or distribute. All built-in examples are original synthetic passages. There is no AI call, account requirement or paid feature.