[SC.LUG] Converting text files

[Geoff]

They also offer html versions which only mark paragraphs and not line 
breaks, though each chapter seems to be in a different file.

Other than that you could use perl to remove single line breaks and 
leave line breaks in place where you have two with no other characters 
in between (ie a new paragraph), but I am not a master at backtracking 
and backreferencing

Though from a google search, it looks like emacs may accomplish this 
task for you:
http://www.delorie.com/gnu/docs/elisp-manual-21/elisp_509.html
or
http://www.xahlee.org/UnixResource_dir/emacs.html

Geoff


Dave Briggs wrote:

>Does anyone know of a quick way to make Project Gutenberg text files actually
>readable?
>
>They always come with hard line breaks, meaning that if you want to decrease the
>font size and whatnot to make printing a little cheaper, the whole thing ends up
>looking utterly rubbish.
>
>Any ideas?
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