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From: arxt@tank.uchicago.edu (patrick  palmer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: memacs question
Keywords: memacs,fill paragraph
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Date: 25 May 89 08:15:37 GMT
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I have been creating files in a wordprocessor (Scribble!), and when the 
file is satisfactory - spelling right, etc, - I  use
memacs to edit in the command lines for amigaTEX.  This might sound
like a perverse way to make files for TEX but I am used to it.  The
problem is that Scribble! (and most wordprocessors) make output so
that each paragraph looks like one long line to the outside
world.  I want to be able to make things look like paragraphs again in memacs.
This is not just to facilitate further editing of the file; sometimes
the long lines end up leaving a space in the text.

On a unix machine, I could use the function fmt to make everything have 
sensible line lenghts again.  Has anyone written such a function for the Amiga?

Or, I could make emacs fill paragraphs (with escape-q in gnu-emacs, I forgot
what in emacs).  I cannot find any way to do this in memacs.  (I even looked at
the manual - well, for a minute or two)  Is there a way to fill paragraphs in
memacs?

Pat Palmer (email: ppalmer@oddjob.uchicago.edu)