hi,
in case somebody uses `vi': I played around with some short-
cuts which allow to substitute inplace groff source text
by its `groff -Tlatin1' formatted output.
this usually is _not_ what one wants but I think it's useful
for simple text files (such as READMEs and the like) where
you are not using any real markup (except empty lines to
separate paragraphs) and when using text based mail clients
(mutt, pine) together with vi, so that you can send reason-
able formatted ascii mails (such as this one where I used
the maps you'll find in the attachment).
The first map reformats the next paragraph (triggered by
CNTRL-t), the second the whole document (triggered by `;t').
maybe somebody finds this useful.
joerg
"reformat next paragraph:
map !} groff -Tlatin1 -ms| tr -s '\n'
}
"reformat whole document:
map ;t 1G !G groff -Tlatin1 -ms| awk 'BEGIN {RS=""; ORS="\n\n"}; {$0=$0;
print}'
