> originally authored them in notepad, using manual linebreaks (yes this was
> not smart) without realizing how this would mess stuff for posting to
> usenet (alt.music.rage-machine) and the like.
What problems has it caused?
I maintain my FAQ in WordPerfect 5.1/DOS and then do a "save as text" to
format it for Usenet. The only hand tuning I need to do is remove the EOF
(^Z) character that WP5.1 insists on putting there.
> so deleted all the manual linebreaks (well, the ones that were causing
> the problem), but now it is unreadable in anything that doesn't
> line-wrap automatically, which includes browsers and the WWW is where
> these things reside 90% of the time and where they are most often
> viewed.
You just want to have your line breaks occur at around 75 columns, and all
should be well...
> so my question: how do i fix this? i have seen text documents (not
> just FAQs of course) that wrap correctly in ALL viewers. how? i'll do
> whatever it takes, basically.
If you have access to a Word Proceesor, use it. If not, use Write or
something else that will handle the line breaking problem for you when you
output it to text for publishing on Usenet or the Web.
Jeff
Jeff Knapp
director@gti.net
I was born by Caesarean section, but you really can't tell...except that when I leave
my house, I always go out the window...
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