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From: bane@mimsy.umd.edu (John R. Bane)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Need help w/WWST
Keywords: help word writer st
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Date: 15 Jan 90 21:05:48 GMT
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Reply-To: bane@mimsy.umd.edu (John R. Bane)
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The problem you're having is that when WWST imports an ASCII file, it
leaves all the spaces as good old ASCII space characters.  When you type
text into WWST normally, it puts a different character between words that
it calls a "variable space".  The format command will only break lines at
variable spaces.

The hack I use is to import the text, save it as a WWST formatted file, then
pop out to a shell and do the following translate:
% tr '\040' '\036' < oldfile.doc > newfile.doc

The resulting newfile.doc will format properly.
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