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Article #5428Re: Unix lines <-> Mac paragraphs converter?
From: Alan Ramaley
Date: Fri, 21 Dec 1990 01:59
Date: Fri, 21 Dec 1990 01:59
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In <1990Dec21.003840.13327@agate.berkeley.edu> steve@violet.berkeley.edu (Steve Goldfield) writes: >In article <761@parcplace.com> khaw@parcplace.com (Mike Khaw) writes: >#>I'm looking for Mac software, preferably free or shareware, that will >#> >#>- Take a text file imported from Unix and remove the line breaks >#>between lines in a paragraph... Hmm. I don't know of any really good way to do this. In Microsoft Word 4.0 you can do a global "replace <return> with nothing", and that will kill all the returns. Better a drastic solution than none at all, sez I. >#>- Do the inverse (sort of); i.e., take a MacWrite or MS-Word doc >#>saved as TEXT-only, and break up the lines within each paragraph >#>so that vi won't choke (vi doesn't like lines with more than 256 >#>characters in them). >WriteNow has this facility built in. It's not free, but >it's the best I've seen. >Steve Goldfield You can do the same in Microsoft Word 4.0. When you do your "save as...", click on the options box (or maybe formats); you can specify "text with line breaks", which chunks your text into lines exactly as you've formatted it. --Alan
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!ames!eos!shelby!csli!ramaley From: ramaley@csli.Stanford.EDU (Alan Ramaley) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps,comp.sys.mac.wanted Subject: Re: Unix lines <-> Mac paragraphs converter? Message-ID: <16963@csli.Stanford.EDU> Date: 21 Dec 90 01:59:40 GMT References: <761@parcplace.com> <1990Dec21.003840.13327@agate.berkeley.edu> Followup-To: comp.sys.mac.apps Distribution: comp Organization: Center for the Study of Language and Information, Stanford U. Lines: 26