[Discussion] Problem with re-formatting a document

[Julian Thomas]

In <E1IgQnm-0000Dw-00 at pop-altamira.atl.sa.earthlink.net>, on 10/12/07 
   at 01:07 PM, bokeny at earthlink.net typed:
>I have a 300+ page document formatted for printing with Courier fonts.  I
>also have the same document in HTML format from an on-line course. 
>Problem is that I really want to printed with Times Roman fonts but the
>lines look raggedy on the right end.

Is this a text document?

If each line ends in a CRLF and there are two CRLF's between paragraphs,
it's quite easy (I've written a Rexx program to do it) to get rid of all
the crlf's in each paragraph.

OR - the HTML may have each paragraph as a single line; look at the
source. If this is the case, you are almost there; just need to convert
<p> codes to CRLFCRLF.

There may be additional headers in there that would require different
treatment.

At any rate, once you have each paragraph one-lined, import it into
whatever - Open Office would be a good choice, select all, and format
justified.

Even if you don't end up justifying it, it will still look better because
a line of TR will generally hold more characters than a line of courier.

I'll dig through my programs and see what I come up with.

 
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