Help with a text editing/conversion problem?

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Help with a text editing/conversion problem?
Tweet Topic Started: Mar 30 2008, 10:04 AM (303 Views)
Kerr Avon	Mar 30 2008, 10:04 AM Post #1
Senior Member Posts: 560 Group: Senior Members Member #52 Joined: December 13, 2006	I'm using the PSP as an e-book reader, as it has a good text viewer (built into iRSHell), but it has the fault that it's not much good at word wrapping, i.e. the text: "IN the year 1878 I took my degree of Doctor of Medicine of the University of London, and proceeded to Netley to go through the course prescribed for surgeons in the army. Having completed my studies there, I was duly attached to the Fifth Northumberland Fusiliers..." would come out something like: "IN the year 1878 I took my degree of Doctor of Medicine of the University of London, and proceeded to Netley to go through the course prescribed for surgeons in the army. Having completed my studies there, I was duly attached to the Fifth Northumberland Fusiliers..." etc What I want is a program that will read in the .txt file of the e-book (just a normal .txt file format) and reformat the text so that each line is a maximum of x characters long (where I specify the number x), and if that line would then terminate in the middle of a word, then the whole word is added to the begining of next line instead, and the current line is shortened by removing that (half a) word and it's preceeding space. You know what I mean (anyone who's manipulated text files for viewing knows what I want). So that, for example, the above text would be: "IN the year 1878 I took my degree of Doctor of Medicine of the University of London, and proceeded to Netley to go through the course prescribed for surgeons in the army. Having completed my studies there, I was duly attached to the Fifth Northumberland Fusiliers..."" Is there a Windows (or DOS) program that will do this, preferably being able to batch function (i.e. work on more than one file if I want it to)? Thanks for any answers. [Incidentally, the above text is the beginning of The Sign of Four, the first Sherlock Holmes story, if anyone's curious]



dagoss	Mar 30 2008, 06:22 PM Post #2
Smarty Pants Posts: 2,884 Group: Senior Members Member #29 Joined: September 20, 2006	(Actually, it's the beginning of A Study in Scarlet ) I think Metapad does what you want. All you have to do is resize the window so that the text is how you want it. Then select EDIT \| COMMIT WORD WRAP. Now the text will wrap the way it appears in the editor when you open the file elsewhere. Tada!



Kerr Avon	Apr 1 2008, 06:18 AM Post #3
Senior Member Posts: 560 Group: Senior Members Member #52 Joined: December 13, 2006	>(Actually, it's the beginning of A Study in Scarlet ) Damn, I knew that! Not only am I a big SH fan, but I also had the online version of ASIS open (from where I copied and pasted the quoted text), so I have NO excuse for this mistake. [Thinks quickly] Er, I was fighting off a load of heavily armed ninjas whilst typing the original post, so I wasn't concentrating 100% on what I was typing. That's my story, and I'm stuck with it. >I think Metapad does what you want. All you have to do is resize the window so that the text is how you want it. Then select EDIT \| COMMIT WORD WRAP. Now the text will wrap the way it appears in the editor when you open the file elsewhere. Tada! That's great, thanks mate. Tata!


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