From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: robert.thorpe@antenova.com (Rob Thorpe) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Mode for Manuscripts? Date: 3 Dec 2003 08:48:43 -0800 Organization: http://groups.google.com Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <1a61f7e5.0312030848.3738e3b7@posting.google.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1070470846 21647 80.91.224.253 (3 Dec 2003 17:00:46 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 3 Dec 2003 17:00:46 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Dec 03 18:00:42 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1ARaMj-0000Pn-01 for ; Wed, 03 Dec 2003 18:00:42 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1ARbJL-0004x4-U0 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 03 Dec 2003 13:01:15 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!postnews1.google.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 64 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 212.135.40.163 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1070470123 8516 127.0.0.1 (3 Dec 2003 16:48:43 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 3 Dec 2003 16:48:43 +0000 (UTC) Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:118952 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.2 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:14892 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:14892 I sometimes use Emacs for similar purposes. What would be useful to me is a mode where: * Tabs that just tab rather than whitespacing to the next word on the line above, which hardly ever makes sense (of course I can do this by binding tab to M-i) * Once tab has been used at the start of a line it would be nice if auto-fill-mode didn't begin at the new indent. This makes sense for programming languages but no sense for text. Personally I deal with things like line spacing later when printing anything out. gebser@speakeasy.net wrote in message news:... > Yeah, it's a funny way to format text, but it's the format required > > for manuscript submissions to publishers. Since emacs is such a great > > editor, perhaps the best on the planet, I'm sure there is a mode already > > constructed for this sort of format you see here in the body of this > > email. > > Here are the specifications explicitly stated: Text must be > > double-spaced. Owing to the need for margins, text should wrap. There > > should be one space, not two, between sentences. Automatic tabs to > > indicate breaks between paragraphs. I think by this they mean a ^I > > character must begin a paragraph. Use regular double spaces between > > paragraphs (as you see at the beginning of the current paragraph. Use > > only one space, not two spaces, between sentences. > > So does such a mode already exist for emacs? Of course I'd want C-n > > and C-p to move the cursor to a text line and not to a blank line in > > between text lines. I know that "pr -d" will do the double-spacing for > > me after I write up the whole thing, but it would be nicer for emacs to > > do the double-spacing for me as I go along. The M-a and M-e keys should > > get me to the beginning and end of sentences and M-q should reformat > > stuff I screw up by editing. > > Finally, it would be best to have a separate (minor?) mode for this > > sort of format-- this so I would have to set and unset a lot of > > variables every time I go in and out of editing in this mode. > > Any help or tips would be very much appreciated. > > > > ken