Visualizing rst diffs with rst2pdf

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Published on 2010-05-28T14:32:52Z Indexed on 2010/05/28 20:02 UTC
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Is there an easy way to visualize the differences between rst files using rst2pdf? I know I could use rst2latex instead and then latexdiff to generate PDF files (and that is the effect I am after), but I would like to have the same style in the original and diff files.

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