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From: chris@mimsy.UUCP (Chris Torek)
Newsgroups: comp.text
Subject: Re: help for a TeX neophyte
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Date: Sun, 20-Sep-87 15:40:22 EDT
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Posted: Sun Sep 20 15:40:22 1987
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>cdash@boulder.Colorado.EDU (Charles Shub) writes:
>>I have a bunch of previously formatted documents that were formatted
>>by a long lost document formatter. I want to use TeX to embolden
>>a few words here and there, italicize a few words here and there, 
>>and the like. I would also like to specify a specific font for the 
>>entire document. I do NOT want TeX to rearange line breaks or white space
>>between lines.

In article <12880007@acf4.UUCP> mamon@acf4.UUCP (Gary Mamon) writes:
>Although I'm only a TeXnician (instead of a TeXpert) I'll give a try at this
>one.
>
>At the beginning of your file type (ignoring the tabs):
>
>	\magnification 1200
>	\obeylines %This should break up the lines as they appear on screen.
>	\obeyspaces %This should force TeX to use your spaces.

Unfortunately, \obeylines does not *really* obey the line breaks in
the input file.  What it does is redefine control-M (^^M in TeXish,
it appears at the end of every input line) to end paragraphs.  You
can get better line obediance by adding

	\everypar={\leavevmode}

TeX will still break overlong lines.  Adding

	\hsize={1000cm}

will prevent that: overlong lines will just disappear off the right
hand side of the page, which is not much better.

I am sure that it is possible to do what cdash asks---after all,
TeX is as much a Turing machine equivalent as is any programming
language---but it may not be easy.
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