hendrick@fozzy.UUCP (Bill Hendricks) (01/15/90)
Regarding Word Writer ST (Timeworks, Version 2.0), I need help with a minor problem: Having loaded an ASCII text file into WWST, how do I get "format" to work? When I tried this past weekend, the text would _not_ reformat. Anybody know the answer to this one? HELP! Thanks in advance. Regards, Bill
matthews@umd5.umd.edu (Mike Matthews) (01/16/90)
In article <839@fozzy.UUCP> hendrick@fozzy.UUCP (Bill Hendricks) writes: >Regarding Word Writer ST (Timeworks, Version 2.0), >I need help with a minor problem: > >Having loaded an ASCII text file into WWST, >how do I get "format" to work? When I tried >this past weekend, the text would _not_ reformat. > >Anybody know the answer to this one? HELP! > >Thanks in advance. >Regards, Bill The problem is there are hard returns everywhere, which tell WWST to stop for- matting. Hard spaces don't help either. The trick I used, which worked reasonably well, was to do a replace of a space for a space. This would replace the internal representation so you'll have SOME formatting capabilities. It won't fix everything, but I doubt that is possible anyway. Hope this helps. Mike
bane@mimsy.umd.edu (John R. Bane) (01/16/90)
The problem you're having is that when WWST imports an ASCII file, it leaves all the spaces as good old ASCII space characters. When you type text into WWST normally, it puts a different character between words that it calls a "variable space". The format command will only break lines at variable spaces. The hack I use is to import the text, save it as a WWST formatted file, then pop out to a shell and do the following translate: % tr '\040' '\036' < oldfile.doc > newfile.doc The resulting newfile.doc will format properly. -- ARPAnet: bane@mimsy.umd.edu UUCP:...umcp-cs!bane