Re: NB...BB blocks that did break and shouldn't

[auerbach@xxxxxxxx (David Auerbach)]

On 03/26/97 at 09:20 AM,
  "N. Sivin"  said (in so many words):

<- Re Eric v. Tassel's message on non-breakable blocks, there is an
<- undocumented feature that greatly simplifies many of the uses of this
<- admirable feature. If you want to format a file as a series of blocks,
<- all of which are non-breakable, you don't need to use the BB
<- (breakable block) command at all. Just as in the IBM mainframe word
<- processor SCRIPT, where such blocks were called "keeps," the NB
<- command, when used alone, ends one block and begins another.

Another hint (I think this is undocumented): if you select a block and
use the NB command, the selected area is appropriately surrounded.
Actually, this is a special case of the "select a block and apply a
command" mode which puts the a propos triangles fore and aft.


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                     David

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