[bksvol-discuss] txt files and formatting
- From: "Sarah Van Oosterwijck" <curiousentity@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 12 Sep 2004 22:59:22 -0500
Since I am a person who needs a life, and also one who likes to be helpful
if possible, and is very curious as one of my E-mail addresses suggests, I
have tested some things with txt files. I have also tried to make the
longest run on sentence ever. :-)
First, I seem to have been wrong about Word being able to save pagebreaks.
I tried both plain text andMS DOS txt, but both did the same thing. Neither
had pagebreaks and the em-dash turned into a single dash as you discribed.
Linebreaks rarely surve any useful purpose and are usually encredibly
annoying, so keeping them isn't a good thing unless the book is poetry, so
don't worry about that.
Second, though irrelevant to a Mac user, notepad will keep em-dashes, but
won't create pagebreaks. It will not distroy pagebreaks in files you edit
in the program, so if you don't need Word's advanced features it can work as
an editor.
Third, and only relevant to Kurzweil users, Kurzweil will retain pagebreaks,
but will convert em-dashes to double dashes, which is also fine.
Sarah Van Oosterwijck
curious entity at earthlink dot net
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