Re: [NTLK] Newton Press and Project Gutenberg

From: Brett Hutley (brett_at_hutley.net)
Date: Fri Apr 02 2004 - 22:24:33 PST

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Rhonda Hyslop wrote:

> Hello all,
>
> I have finally gotten all the parts in place to make Newton Press
> convert a text file into a newton book without complaining - and I
> noticed that due to the line breaks in the PG etexts, the formatting is
> simply atrocious. Each PG line is about 1 3/4 line in the Newton Press
> window.
>
> I'm sure some people here have turned Project Gutenberg etexts into
> newtonbooks before - is there an easy way to clean up the line breaks
> without going through the entire file in a text editor? Anything that
> runs on linux or mac system 7.5 will work for me :-)

What about fmt?

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