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Comparing identical lines
The difference between the text in "Hymns to the Living God" and "Cyber Hymnal" is the apostrophe. In HTLG it is straight and in Cyber it is curly. This Cyber Hymnal text was sucked in via a script and it has ASCII characters in the underlying text.
The apostrophe difference
makes sense, though I would then expect just the apostrophe on the left to be highlighted, not the whole line plus the final space of the preceding line.
comparing identical lines
Which hymnals are you comparing?
Missing screenshot
I obviously don't know how to post a screenshot here. I added it as a media file and tried to insert it, but nothing shows up. Here's its URL: https://hymnary.org/files/hymnary/image/His%20lips%20with%20grace%20o%27erflow%20but%20how%20do%20they%20differ.jpg
It's Hymns to the Living God and Lutheran Hymnary, not Cyber Hymnal. And I do see that the former ends the line with a comma and the latter with a period, but the apostrophes both look straight to me.
Invisible Illustration
When I edited my original post and added the screenshot, this is what I saw in the editing mode: https://hymnary.org/files/hymnary/image/invisible%20illustration.jpg
But when I saved the edit or published it or whatever it's called, the screenshot was not visible (or even mentioned) in the resulting version of the OP.
Majestic sweetness - HTLG vs. LHPN1913
In "Hymns to the Living God" the last line of the verse repeats. It does not do this in 'Lutheran Hymnary" so the last line is highlighted as a difference along with the comma at the end of the previous line because in "Lutheran Hymnary" the line ends with a period. (There may have originally been an extra space inserted at the end of the line in HTLG)
Ah
Of course. Thanks!