Path: utzoo!dciem!nttor!contact!dmntor!djm
From: djm@dmntor.UUCP (David McKellar)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.wanted
Subject: A news article formatter
Message-ID: <1991Mar28.210352.7780@dmntor.UUCP>
Date: 28 Mar 91 21:03:52 GMT
Reply-To: djm@dmntor.UUCP (David McKellar)
Organization: DMN
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Has anyone written a utility that nicely formats news articles for printing ?

It could turn *bold* into real bold and _underline_ into real underline
and {this} into italic and -:) into something that resembles a smiling face.
I'm sure there's other tricks it could perform.

Additionally,
it could underline the subject and remove the path and other noise headers.

I guess the best way to do it would be to turn the article into nroff
input.

What do you think ?  Is this a new er old idea.  Good er bad.
-- 
Dave McKellar
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