13 Mar 96 04:33, andrew clarke wrote to Paul Edwards:

 > Why not write a filter to convert the "hard-wrapped" text
generated by 
 > EMACS to proper paragraphs that Msged can handle.  You could even add 
 > it to the Msged code.  And release it to the public domain.  How about 
 > it?  :-)

The following program is a text filter that will read text in from standard
input and attempt to convert "hard-returns" to paragraphs, and
output to standard output, while taking into consideration quoted lines
beginning with the quote ' character.

Putting "~~" (sans quotes) at the beginning of a line, eg.

~~
Don't touch me, I want the formatting of this text left alone!
Don't touch me, I want the formatting of this text left alone!
Don't touch me, I want the formatting of this text left alone!
~~

before and after a selection of text will tell the program to copy standard
input to standard output verbatim, without filtering.  (The "~~"
is not sent to standard output.)  Users of the timEd message reader who use
an external editor should find this feature familiar.

It's a bit of a five-minute hack, but with a bit of luck (and probably a 
bit of modification) it should work for you.  Have fun.

/*
 *  FILTER.C - Filter to attempt to convert text with hard-returns to text in
 *  paragraph form.
 *
 *  For more information send FidoNet netmail to Andrew Clarke at 3:635/727.4
 *  (or in the Australian PUBLIC_DOMAIN conference) or Internet e-mail at
 *  randy{at}empire.bbs.net.au.
 *
 *  Written 1996 by Andrew Clarke in about 5 minutes and released to the
 *  public domain.
 *
 */

#include 
#include 
#include 

int main(void)
{
    char quote[11], tmp[300];
    int addtext, retforce;

    addtext = retforce = 0;
    while (1) {
        if (fgets(tmp, 300, stdin) == NULL)
            break;
        if (*(tmp + strlen(tmp) - 1) == '\n')
            *(tmp + strlen(tmp) - 1) = '\0';
        if (!retforce) {
            if (strcmp(tmp, "~~") == 0) {
                retforce = 1;
                printf("\n");
            } else {
                if (addtext)
                    putchar(' ');
                strncpy(quote, tmp, 11);
                quote[10] = '\0';
                if (*tmp && !strchr(quote, '>') &&
strlen(tmp) > 60) {
                    printf("%s", tmp);
                    addtext = 1;
                } else {
                    printf("%s\n", tmp);
                    addtext = 0;
                }
            }
        } else {
            if (strcmp(tmp, "~~") == 0)
                retforce = 0;
            if (addtext) {
                printf("\n");
                addtext = 0;
            }
            if (strcmp(tmp, "~~") != 0)
                printf("%s\n", tmp);
        }
    }
    return 0;
}

Sorry of that's all a bit vague. :-)  Just read the code and try it out on
one of your messages.

Regards
Andrew

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