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From: bhagwan@topgun.UUCP (Allen McPherson)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.mh
Subject: Reply formatting - how to format body?
Keywords: mh, mhl, mh-format
Message-ID: <88@topgun.UUCP>
Date: 30 Aug 90 21:28:56 GMT
Organization: Los Alamos National Lab, LA, NM, USA
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	I need some help with MH. Specifically on formatting the body
	of a message in a reply.

	I've looked at the man pages and have figured out that

	  From:formatfield="%(putstr(friendly{text})) writes:",nocomponent

	will give me my introductory line. Now I'd like the body
	formatted as follows:

	  >  blah...
	  >  blah...
	  >  blah...

	I can't see how to have every line prefixed by some arbitrary
	string. I'd appreciate a solution to this and some more examples
	of mh-format and mhl in general.

Thanks for the help,
Al McPherson                     Member Holstein Aerobatic Club
Los Alamos National Laboratory   Advanced Graphics and Parallel Sytems
P.O. Box 1663  MEE-10  MS:K488   Los Alamos, NM   87545
bhagwan@agps.lanl.gov            (505) 667-8495

P.S.  There was a fellow a while back that said he was writing a book on
      MH for O'reilly. Still there? A suggestion: put lots of examples
      of these format strings in your book. I think many of us could use it.