From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kevin Rodgers Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Book writing mode? Date: Wed, 26 May 2004 12:07:40 -0600 Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <40B4DCEC.4040604@yahoo.com> References: <10b9idsssv6sq61@corp.supernews.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1085607903 27080 80.91.224.253 (26 May 2004 21:45:03 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 26 May 2004 21:45:03 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed May 26 23:44:55 2004 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 1BT6Ck-0006B4-00 for ; Wed, 26 May 2004 23:44:54 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1BT2yq-0008S3-3B for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 26 May 2004 14:18:20 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!newsmi-us.news.garr.it!newsmi-eu.news.garr.it!NewsITBone-GARR!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 16 Original-X-Trace: news.uni-berlin.de xYTzTvz62l7SQ5494vbAPwfjZhEtfwAIfgAgVlxKVrfVjLncE= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; SunOS i86pc; en-US; rv:0.9.4.1) Gecko/20020406 Netscape6/6.2.2 X-Accept-Language: en-us Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:123478 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.4 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:18785 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:18785 Roodwriter@core.com wrote: > I have a macro to convert the blocks to tabbed paragraphs and long-lines > when I'm done. This is because Emacs' hard carriage return method of line > breaking is not what newspapers want. No editor is going to want to > assemble lines by hand. Also it facilitates searching my old articles by > grep, which I do daily, since for many news stories I need background > material, or at least a small fact, like how to spell the copy machine > company's name. Check out longlines.el: http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/LongLines -- Kevin Rodgers