If you want just a text editor and not the whole GUIGUTS, you might try TEXTPAD. It does much of what you want--will reformat marked text to the current window (ok so you have to set it right to begin with), displays CR's as an option, will also join marked lines. It will not remove extra spaces between words, but will I think not hyphenate words. Has macro capability etc. Has been around since 1995. http://www.textpad.com/ .Also does a lot of other neat things convert from DOS , MAC etc. As far as regularizing, if plain text just save text document as html in Word. Extra spaces will be removed. Select entire text and paste back into a text document. Of course this does not do intelligent things like remove spaces before a period, etc. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jon Noring" <jon@noring.name> To: <gutvol-d@lists.pglaf.org> Sent: Saturday, January 15, 2005 3:37 PM Subject: [gutvol-d] Looking for text editor which does ...
Everyone,
A basic question...
I'd like to get the recommendations of the long-timers here for a Windows-based GUI text editor or utility which cleans up *selected* paragraphs of text (in plain text documents) to create uniform line lengths with hard line breaks.
The situation is that I have a large marked-up text document where many paragraphs have varying and (many times) quite long line lengths. For example, a paragraph may consist of three lines, the first may be 250 characters long, the second 50 characters long, and the third 120 characters long -- and I'd like to "regularize" the paragraph with lines exactly 70 characters or less in length (this paragraph is an example of such "regularization".) I'd like to simply select those three lines in the utility, click a button or something, and the text is automagically "regularized" (no hyphenation, one space between words, etc.)
It gets quite laborious doing this by hand with my text editor of choice, vi (I use Lemmy, a Windows vi-clone, for most of my text editing needs.) I do NOT want a tool which only globally does this to the whole document (i.e. there are longer lines in the document which I wish to keep unbroken.) And I do NOT want a tool requiring typing in a long command line -- by the time I do that I could regularize the paragraph by hand in my editor. I just want to select and regularize.
So, what's out there? Obviously Project Gutenbergers must use various tools to "regularize" paragraphs. (There's no doubt a different word most everyone here uses to describe this process, but I don't know what it is, thus the use of the word "regularize".)
Thanks.
Jon Noring
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