From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: gebser@speakeasy.net Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Mode for Manuscripts? Date: Sat, 29 Nov 2003 15:53:54 -0500 (EST) Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: Reply-To: gebser@speakeasy.net NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1070139387 3330 80.91.224.253 (29 Nov 2003 20:56:27 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 29 Nov 2003 20:56:27 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Nov 29 21:56:25 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 1AQC8e-0006zO-00 for ; Sat, 29 Nov 2003 21:56:24 +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 1AQD4d-0000Ho-C4 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 29 Nov 2003 16:56:19 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1AQD4I-0000H5-Tr for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 29 Nov 2003 16:55:58 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1AQD3m-0008Eq-14 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 29 Nov 2003 16:55:57 -0500 Original-Received: from [66.93.11.17] (helo=mousecar.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1AQD3l-0008Cr-9s for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 29 Nov 2003 16:55:25 -0500 Original-Received: from localhost (ken@localhost) by mousecar.net (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id hATKrwT04291 for ; Sat, 29 Nov 2003 15:53:59 -0500 X-Authentication-Warning: heidegger.mousecar.net: ken owned process doing -bs 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:14724 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:14724 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