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- From: kv07@IASTATE.EDU (Warren Vonroeschlaub)
- Subject: Re: ISO Code, bold, italic ....
- Message-ID: <1993Jan23.142842@IASTATE.EDU>
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- Reply-To: kv07@IASTATE.EDU (Warren Vonroeschlaub)
- Organization: Ministry of Silly Walks
- References: <1joqhjINNk7e@nz12.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de> <=2l3dfg@rpi.edu>
- Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 20:28:42 GMT
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- In article <=2l3dfg@rpi.edu>, cleggp@aix.rpi.edu (Paul Jason Clegg) writes:
- > The ONLY problem I can forsee though, is line length problems (I know, not a
- > big one, but you have to think); after all, if you plan the line to be
- > 76 characters long WITH the special characters in it, but then you have to
- > change the special characters to to a 5 or 6 character string, you're going
- > to dump over the 80 column width (not to mention the preferred 76 character
- > length).
-
- This would also be a problem for the update program to solve. It isn't too
- hard to read through a file and insert newlines after the last word that will
- fit on a line, while deleting single newlines to get the spacing right.
-
- I was under the impression that this was the whole reason for having double
- returns after a paragraph: so the reader program can distinguish between a
- next-line spot and a next-paragraph spot. This would be a boon to those with
- "funny" screens (ie, TSR-80s which have 76 character screens (like there is a
- guide in the works for it, but you know what I mean)).
-
- I've written adventure games that do this (some of the words being printed
- were variables, so I couldn't predict where the cr's were to be put) so I know
- it isn't hard. It could probably even be done on the fly.
-
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