Another New Feature Request

[Bill Wood]

Right, Trevor. That is exactly what I used to do
manually when I had to reformat an existing document I
substituted **** for HRt, and ***** for HRtHRt by a
global search and replace. But, try that on a 100-page
spec with tables, and where all formatting artifacts
have been reduced to spaces. What a mess. I've been in
the engineering business a long time, and if there is
one lesson I've learned it's that text should be stored
(or transmitted) with as little fixed formatting,
especially hard returns, as possible. Formatting can
and should be added by a viewer.


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On Tue, 02 Nov 1999 11:21:48 -0400 (AST), Trevor Smith
wrote:

>On Mon, 01 Nov 1999 15:16:56 -0500 (EST), Ralph Cohen wrote:
>
>>On Mon, 01 Nov 1999 11:59:13 -0800 (PST), Bill Wood wrote:
>>
>>>Anyway, it's irritating to me that I spend so much time
>>>deleting hard returns.
>>
>>I agree.  I was hoping that along with the new "Paste Quoted" option a
>>"Reformat Block" option would have been added since it's essentially
>>the same thing (without the quote character).  Hopefully we'll see this
>>in a future release.
>
>Even if you don't want to use an external editor (as was suggested
>already) I have a relatively quick workaround for this problem.
>Although I rarely use it for email, I  do use it extensively when I
>moderate WarpCast messages.
>
>I use Smalled for these situations. Other text editors may have
>similar functions.
>
>With Smalled I do this:
>
>1. select the text in question and drag and drop to Smalled (thanks
>to DragText)
>2. select all in Smalled (ctrl /)
>3. select "Tools->Text format->Remove cr"
>(this removes single carriage returns, but not double ones, ie.
>paragraph separations)
>4. select "Tools->Text format->Remove tabs/sp" (ctrl space)
>(this changes any long strings of spaces and tabs to single spaces)
>5. drag and drop the text in question back to my PMMail window
>(thanks to DragText)
>
>Regardless of the length of the text I'm reformatting I can do the
>above in about 2 - 3 seconds, assuming Smalled is already open. (If
>it's not already open, add another 1 - 2 seconds. <g>)
>
>While it would be nice if PMMail had these editing options, anyone
>who really finds himself reformatting hard returns frequently should
>just get DragText and Smalled (look for them at BMT Micro) or some
>similar editor.
>
>
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Bill Wood
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