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Mode for Manuscripts?
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gebser |
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Mode for Manuscripts? |
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Sat, 29 Nov 2003 15:53:54 -0500 (EST) |
Yeah, it's a funny way to format text, but it's the format required
for manuscript submissions to publishers. Since emacs is such a great
editor, perhaps the best on the planet, I'm sure there is a mode already
constructed for this sort of format you see here in the body of this
email.
Here are the specifications explicitly stated: Text must be
double-spaced. Owing to the need for margins, text should wrap. There
should be one space, not two, between sentences. Automatic tabs to
indicate breaks between paragraphs. I think by this they mean a ^I
character must begin a paragraph. Use regular double spaces between
paragraphs (as you see at the beginning of the current paragraph. Use
only one space, not two spaces, between sentences.
So does such a mode already exist for emacs? Of course I'd want C-n
and C-p to move the cursor to a text line and not to a blank line in
between text lines. I know that "pr -d" will do the double-spacing for
me after I write up the whole thing, but it would be nicer for emacs to
do the double-spacing for me as I go along. The M-a and M-e keys should
get me to the beginning and end of sentences and M-q should reformat
stuff I screw up by editing.
Finally, it would be best to have a separate (minor?) mode for this
sort of format-- this so I would have to set and unset a lot of
variables every time I go in and out of editing in this mode.
Any help or tips would be very much appreciated.
ken
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