From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Elaine Sims Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: (Newbie) How to turn AutoFill-mode on/off Date: Sat, 23 Nov 2002 20:09:54 GMT Organization: AT&T Broadband Sender: help-gnu-emacs-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <3PQD9.121756$QZ.20321@sccrnsc02> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1038082493 26916 80.91.224.249 (23 Nov 2002 20:14:53 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 23 Nov 2002 20:14:53 +0000 (UTC) Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18Fgg0-0006zy-00 for ; Sat, 23 Nov 2002 21:14:52 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 18FgcX-0006XI-00; Sat, 23 Nov 2002 15:11:17 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!nycmny1-snh1.gtei.net!news.gtei.net!newsfeed.mathworks.com!wn13feed!wn14feed!wn12feed!worldnet.att.net!204.127.198.203!attbi_feed3!attbi_feed4!attbi.com!sccrnsc02.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help User-Agent: Newsflash/4.0-alpha-11 (MacOS/10) Original-Lines: 80 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 24.98.58.219 Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@attbi.com Original-X-Trace: sccrnsc02 1038082194 24.98.58.219 (Sat, 23 Nov 2002 20:09:54 GMT) Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 23 Nov 2002 20:09:54 GMT Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:107336 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.11 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:3891 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:3891 Michael Slass wrote: > >Elaine Sims writes: > >> >>I'm a writer. And I have just started learning Xemacs and have found >>that it's editing capabilities are superior to any wordprocessor I've >>ever used. (like C-x-t, C-x-e, C-t, etc,etc). >> >>But the problem is: typing in text-mode and seeing the little arrow >>at the end of the line and the breaks mid-word is a distraction. I'm >>much more comfortable looking at the screen in auto-fill mode. >> >>But then if I open the text in a word processor (AbiWord, Word) it >>retains the line breaks, which I have to manually delete to reform >>the paragraphs. If I have to do that to a 100,000 word manuscript >>I'll go crazy. >> >>Actually the only reason I'm opening the file at all in a word >>processor is because I haven't learned how to format and print out my >>manuscripts from Xemacs (with double spacing and headers and page >>numbers) yet. >> >>If I could do it all from within Xemacs that would be preferrable. >> >>And I'm not adverse to learning a little LISP to do it. >> >>Any help I can get would be appreciated. >> >>Thanks. >> >>Elaine >> > >OK. You should learn LaTeX. It has a fairly steep learning curve, >but it is the standard UNIX way of producing typeset documents, and >there's a very good reason. The standard LaTeX styles produce all the >things you mention above, and many more, and there are additional >style files to do anything else you can think of. > >Your document will consist of your words and strings of commands to >LaTeX. The length of your lines will be irrelevant, because LaTeX >will typeset each paragraph appropriately, so you can turn on >auto-fill at a width that's comfortable for you during editing, and >not think about it any more. > >You will *definitely* need a copy of Leslie Lamport's book: > >_LaTeX: A Document Preparation System_ > >http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0201529831/qid=1038080753/sr=2-2/ref=sr_2_2/104-7996619-8519144 > > >Also, you will be very happy with auctex-mode, an elisp package >designed to facilitate preparation of LaTeX documents. It may or may >not have been included with your distrubution of emacs, but you can >find it and instructions for installing it by google-ing for >auctex.el. AucTex lets you control all of your document preparation >from within emacs. > >LaTeX is not WYSIWYG -- there is a cycle of edit, compile, view to see >how your document will look, but with a reasonably fast computer (the >thesis I'm not writing at this moment while I'm chatting with you is >25K words, and renders in about 20sec on my P3 450) the cycle is not >unduly long. > >The web is full of LaTeX tutorials, and comp.text.tex has a large and >knowledgeable reader base. > >Good luck. >-- >Mike Slass Exactly the information I was hoping for. Thanks so much for the help. And good luck on your thesis. Elaine