From: robert.thorpe@antenova.com (Rob Thorpe)
Subject: Re: Mode for Manuscripts?
Date: 3 Dec 2003 08:48:43 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1a61f7e5.0312030848.3738e3b7@posting.google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mailman.794.1070142961.399.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
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:<mailman.794.1070142961.399.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>...
> 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
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Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <mailman.794.1070142961.399.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2003-11-30 1:22 ` Mode for Manuscripts? Dan Anderson
2003-11-30 4:11 ` gebser
2003-11-30 7:14 ` Eli Zaretskii
2003-11-30 17:15 ` gebser
2003-12-02 14:57 ` gebser
[not found] ` <mailman.809.1070180065.399.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2003-12-01 13:52 ` giacomo boffi
2003-12-17 20:44 ` Kai Grossjohann
2003-12-18 12:46 ` gebser
2003-12-01 19:29 ` Stefan Monnier
2003-12-03 16:48 ` Rob Thorpe [this message]
2003-12-03 17:22 ` Stefan Monnier
2003-12-05 9:20 ` Rob Thorpe
[not found] <mailman.464.1072103900.868.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2003-12-22 16:44 ` Kai Grossjohann
[not found] <mailman.251.1071755300.868.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2003-12-18 18:24 ` Kai Grossjohann
2003-12-22 13:36 ` gebser
2003-11-29 20:53 gebser
2003-11-30 1:33 ` Peter S Galbraith
2003-11-30 4:14 ` gebser
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