Re: Automated Clean-up of Ragged Text ?

["Yo Intl." rrr@xxxxxxxx]

At 06:10 PM 11/1/00 -0800, jr_fox@xxxxxxxx wrote:

>By ragged formatting, I mean that there are frequent, random gaps
>between words of from 5 to 20 spaces, the lines are not of any
>approximately consistent length, and carriage returns are applied quite
>haphazardly. You wonder how anything could have been written,
>posted, or distributed that way, but it was. (Or maybe it all
>magically looks right if you loaded it into OUTLOOK, I dunno.)

Just fwiw, I use a wonderful little DOS utility called "textcon.com" to 
deal with that sort of file, and it works beautifully. From XY, of course, 
it is a simple "do textcon " from the command line.

I think textcon.com was shareware, frankly I don't remember if I ever paid 
for it, but I think by now the author's address should be way out of date.

If anybody is interested, I can attach it.

Textcon is one addition to XYwrite that I would never leave the 
house without.


-- Rene v. Rentzell, Tokyo