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echo: wperfect
to: BILL WHITE
from: GAIL HALL
date: 1994-10-15 18:28:00
subject: Re: ascii text files

On 10-12-94 (12:22) BILL WHITE wrote to GAIL HALL concerning "RE: ASCII TEXT 
FILES":
BW>      I have never seen my output come back to me messed up like that,
BW> tho I have seen other people's messages that way once in a while,
BW> tho especially David Seidman's. There's an incompatibility somewhere,
BW> tho but where?  BTW, the cleaned-up version of my macro that you sent
BW> back was received correctly here.
BW> ????
BW>      Hmmm, seems to me I've heard that leaving 2 blank spaces at the 
beginni
BW> of each line will take care of that.  Let's try it - here's the Macro 
again,
BW> indented
BW> 2 spaces.  Let me know how you receive this:
....
It came just fine.  Thanks!
OK, I guess for important stuff like that I will do this in ED:
   Shift-F8           Options
   1                  Line
   4                  Auto-Indent
   y                  Yes
   Enter,
etc. till back at the editing screen.
Then for the first line you space in the 2 spaces and from then on your words 
will wrap to start at the same position as the line above.
For messages like this I have my tabs set to spaces because different readers 
and viewers treat tabs differently and may mess up the look I wanted.
Thanks for the pointer!
If I don't want Auto-Indent on and I have just a few lines, I space in on the 
first line, move to the beginning of the next line and press F6.  That copies 
whatever word is on the line above including spaces.
                           >
BW>       -------------------------8<------------------------
BW>   //Hrt2Srt.WPM
BW>   //From the cursor on, changes hard returns to soft returns.
BW>   //Put cursor at top of document if you want them all changed.
BW>   DISPLAY(Off!)
BW>   RevCodes(On!)
BW>   QmarkSet
BW>   SrchStr("")
BW>   ReplStr("~~")
BW>   ReplFor()
BW>   QmarkFind
BW>   SrchStr("")
BW>   ReplStr(" ")
BW>   ReplFor()
BW>   QmarkFind
BW>   SrchStr("~~")
BW>   ReplStr("")
BW>   ReplFor()
BW>   RevCodes(Off!)
BW>       -------------------------8<------------------------
BW>      In fact, not that I see the CUT lines, I remember that the reason I 
hav
BW> that macro set up to indent them is that is I didn't they care back to me 
as
BW> ___----------------------8<------------------------
BW>                              The Bill White of Miami, FL
BW>  * SLMR 2.1a * I've lost track. I hope this isn't a repeat! I've lost tr
BW> --- Maximus 2.01wb
 * OLX 2.1 TD * Dew knot trussed yore spell checquer two fined awl heirs!
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