tim (01/12/83)
These are two things which all posters of news should
be aware of.
Posting an article to two or more groups makes it
impossible to see the article more than once by any means
during a session using the standard readnews interface.
This is particularly important to note in articles which
contain addresses or other material that should be saved,
since the standard procedure is to read an article and then
"s- <file>" if it is something you want. The "-" will not
work on articles posted to multiple groups, nor will speci-
fying the article by number.
If using the "vi" text editor, it is possible to use
nroff without leaving the editor. Go to line one and say
"!Gnroff <opts><cr>". This replaces everything until the
last line with what nroff puts out with those lines as
input. This produces articles that are much more pleasant
to read. However, you will have to strip away leading and
trailing blank lines yourself.
If you already knew these, or if they don't apply to
you, I'm sorry to take up your time, but there is no other
way of insuring that they get to the many people they are
targeted at.
Tim Maroney
unc!timmcewan (01/15/83)
#R:unc:-450200:uiucdcs:9700037:000:113 uiucdcs!mcewan Jan 14 21:57:00 1983 I personally find right-justified articles LESS pleasant to read. I prefer that people NOT nroff their articles!
davy (01/16/83)
#R:unc:-450200:pur-ee:5400016:000:612 pur-ee!davy Jan 15 11:54:00 1983 Yo find right justified articles hard to read? Hmm. That's interesting. At any rate, I would prefer to have them right justified than have lines longer than my terminal is wide. Anyway, I have a program which can easily be called from "vi" which will justify or simply fill text. I didn't write it, and would prefer to check with the author before giving it out to anyone, however, perhaps other people have such things they'd be willing to post. Or, you could use "nroff -man".....this will make the text somewhat pretty, but the lines won't be right-justified.... --Dave Curry pur-ee!davy