[gutvol-d] Re: In search of a more-vanilla vanilla TXT

greg said:

Or what is the most primitive device in use today

the web-browser. a web-browser won't wrap the lines on a .txt file, so if the hard-returns were removed from p.g. .txt files, the lines would run off the screen of a web-browser. try it if you don't believe me. *** it's absolutely true that project gutenberg should have given users a tool that would remove the hard returns, and it should've done that years ago, but it's also true that the .txt files _should_ have hard-returns in them. now, i'd suggest that those hard-returns should mimic the ones found in the print-books against which the text was proofed, but that won't help the books already done. -bowerbird