>>>From: Nathan Brindle <[log in to unmask]>
>>>Plain text (ASCII) is done last because it requires the most hand-formatting.
[snip]
>>>You're right, it's MS Word 6.  This is not new
 
Word 6 has a wonderful menu item called "save as ms-dos text with line breaks".
No formatting required. You get plain text with three mouse clicks. I think
Word even suggests a ".txt" filename, but you may have to type that. This will
insert hard linefeeds everywhere there was a soft line break (wrapping) in
Word, and it will leave tabs as tabs. Some columns will look ugly, but that is
also easily fixed by constraining yourself to fixed-spacing tabs (measured in
terms of the fixed-pitch font you are of course using).
 
Hope this helps. I figured it out while publishing a newsletter via hardcopy,
email, and postscript on the web (use any postscript printer in Windoze, but
print to disk and delete the "^D" character at the top and bottom of the file).
The postscript version can be viewed by any EPS-aware browser, or downloaded
with FTP and read by the (FREE) ghostscript viewer. Amazingly good quality.
 
SRE
 
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