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To: William Henney <whenney@gmail.com>
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Thanks!  Yes, this does work, and I'll definitely use it.

I wonder how hard it would be to automate those steps.

Scott

On 8/25/2008 5:26 PM, William Henney wrote:
> Hi Scott
> <...>
> What seems to work is to first set aside some lines for your artistic
> creation, select them, and do "C-x n n" (narrow-to-region) before
> turning on artist-mode. Then, when you have finished, turn off
> artist-mode and do "C-x n w" (widen).
>
> This is a bit of a pain to remember the steps, but it does protect the
> org file from getting clobbered.
>
> Cheers
>
> Will
>
>