Subject: [FFML] FYI - useful word-wrapping text editors
From: MadamHydra@aol.com
Date: 7/23/1998, 10:21 AM
To: ffml@fanfic.com

I've noticed that a lot of people have problems getting their fanfics
wordwrapped to 70-80 characters per line -- I personally favor 70-75
chars/line, myself -- so I thought I would mention two programs which can let
you freely edit in soft-wrapped form (i.e., no hard returns at the end of each
line) AND allows you to save documents which are hard-wrapped (i.e., hard
returns at the ned of each line) to any number of characters you specify.

  For people with Macintoshes, try a freeware program called "BBEDIT Lite".

  For people with PCs, try a program called "TextPad".The program is shareware
but I believe that the word-wrap feature is fully functional.   Check the help
document under the term "word wrap".   

To get either of these programs, go to the URL:     
        http://www.shareware.com/

   For "BBEDIT Lite", specify "Macintosh" software and use the search term
"bbedit lite".

   For "TextPad", specify "Windows" software and use the search term
"Textpad".  

The search results will show you where you can download the programs.  I'm
pretty sure that these programs are also available in the AOL (and other
commercial network or university) shareware libraries.

Since both these programs produce documents in basic ASCII text, all you have
to do is cut-and-paste into your email program.  This way, you improve
readability and you don't have to worry how your readers' email programs are
displaying your story.

I hope you guys find this info helpful.  I love reading fanfics but badly
word-wrapped stories drive me crazy!  My vision is bad enough as it is....
^_^;

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