Re: FAQ formatting

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Nathan Mates (nathan@visi.com)
Sat, 25 Jan 1997 18:17:39 -0600 (CST)


> 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.

Easy-- make sure there's a return every 70 or so characters, don't
assume some things will automagically wordwrap for you. I use emacs to
do my FAQ editing; M-q (escape-q for keyboards withut the meta key)
does just that on the current paragraph. Win95's Notepad does have
something of a 'word wrap' function that might work, but I don't
know/care too much.

Alternatively, you can edit stuff up in html and use lynx to do the
conversion to text (use 'p' to 'print' the current page to a file),
which'll have nice linebreaks.

Nathan Mates



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