Is there a way to do some kind of 'past special', or paste it in a way that doesn't require revising from MS Word? What I do when I want to send my description to the MUD (Or an application), I write it in MS Word, then paste it into notepad, and use the 'send to world' command. But when I do this, it generally takes out all of the formatting that was done in Word. Is there a way to transfer that over as well, or should I just suck it up and spend an extra few seconds to revise it again?
Notepad....
Posted by Tatewaki2365 on Tue 07 Dec 2004 11:25 AM — 5 posts, 22,736 views.
hrm.. what I'd suggest is to write it in notepad, so you don't have to worry about that formatting, but I don't know much about MS Word, as.. sad as that is =p I do all my text editing in notepad heh
I would, except it doesn't offer the same options as Word. It's alot easier to write in Word than it is in notepad; the autowrapping is especially one of my pet peeves - I can never get things lined up unless the word processor I'm using is capable of setting boundaries for me, so that I can type and not have to worry about trying to type a certain amount of letters/numbers before pushing enter. But it also applies for indentations, etc.
Word processors generally have a problem when trying to convert their changes to other programs in that the method used is not standardized, where a text editor, like note pad, is. In note pad you can turn the word wrapper on/off, but generally a mud will require manual line breaks to be entered automatically. The problem with trying to do the same as a word processor like word is that the auto-wrapper it uses doesn't use \n or \r to force a new line, and this is generally whats needed for muds that run on a linux platform. Indentation should be the same if your using spaces to force the space you need, where things like tabs can be changed arbitrarily.
You could write a small script that takes the notepad contents (GetNotepadText), formats to 78 columns or whatever you want (look for linefeed, backtrack to previous space), and then puts it back (SendToNotepad) or just sends it to the world (Send).