On Thu, 25 Jul 2002 15:49:21 -0400 Sam Vilsmeier <syp104@email.psu.edu> wrote:
Hi. Does anyone know any formating aids that can wrap my text to the
standard format?
I want to put my work op on some text archives, and formating 100+ pages
of
text manually is something I'd like to avoid.
I have a Perl script that do that fairly well. If you are running
under MS Windows, ActiveState perl is easy to install.
See http://home.ix.netcom.com/~mchase/zip/wrap_long.zip . It does depend
on having either indented first lines in each paragraph or blank lines
between them.
I have another Perl script that strips out the excess trash from MS Word's
misconception of HTML. That way, if you like, you can save your stories as
HTML (as you have on your website) and convert them to decent HTML.
I have used the script on your stories and the resulting HTML was quite
readable and much smaller that the original.
Give me a hallar and I can help you set it up for yourself.