On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 07:09:34PM +0200, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > On Mon, 23 Nov 2009 17:39:35 -0800, Gary Kline <kl...@thought.org> wrote: > > PS: is there any one-liner to add back one newline between paragraphs? > > Not an accurate one. > > You can *guess* when a line ends with a punctuation character > *and* it is shorter than some configurable wrapping column that > it is probably the end of a paragraph. But this is only a > heuristic guess and a pretty silly heuristic at that. >
it's prob'ly bcse i'm older than zeus, but it seems that i once wrote a script or short c program that detected the end-of-paragraph. maybe somewhere in atom. anyway, karl vogel came to my rescue with a two-byte change to the print $fh "$_"; line. appending "$/" resolves the problem. print $fh "$_$/"; now i can point kttsd's reader at the entire [huge] file -- while i read along. or read each chapter individually. the way i wrote them -- Gary Kline kl...@thought.org http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix http://jottings.thought.org http://transfinite.thought.org The 7.31a release of Jottings: http://jottings.thought.org/index.php _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"