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Posted by Jukka K. Korpela on 01/12/01 11:29
Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@schestowitz.com> wrote:
> I am sorry to be such a disappointment, but perhaps I was not explicit
> enough as to what I was trying to apply this to and what I sought to
> achieve. I imagined that the subject line would be a good
> clarification, but the context (newsgroup) evaded me.
Well, your question was completely off-topic. Many people in alt.html
understand this as a catchall group, but that's rather unconstructive.
A group for anything isn't suitable for anything.
> I am hoping to be able to apply this method to text such as that which
> I write in this very message, i.e. simple and plain ASCII.
So why don't you try and find a group that discusses such matters? The
group comp.text comes into my mind. Of course, you would need to explain
your problem and situation clearly there, in order to get useful answers.
You haven't even told anything about the environment (BSD or System V
UNIX?).
> I want to
> have a little tool that will take as input this text and give me
> something that appears nicer in terms of layout.
You would need to define "little", "nicer", and "layout". But there are
surely programs that do such things - they have existed for decades, long
before HTML was invented. Justification of plain text was found to be bad
idea long ago, but surely there is software for it.
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