• soft for an e-zine in ascii text mode

    From Malvinas@VERT/TECHNOA to All on Friday, May 16, 2025 18:54:58
    I'm thinking about publishing articles in the form of an electronic magazine, distributed in a .zip with a few text files with the articles.
    Which software should I use? I would like it to be in ascii format and have some level of ascii art decor where the text would be inserted.

    Malvinas.

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  • From Gamgee@VERT/PALANTIR to Malvinas on Saturday, May 17, 2025 08:29:15
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    Ma> I'm thinking about publishing articles in the form of an electronic
    Ma> magazine, distributed in a .zip with a few text files with the
    Ma> articles. Which software should I use? I would like it to be in ascii
    Ma> format and have some level of ascii art decor where the text would be
    Ma> inserted.

    I'd say nano, or vim.

    Ma> Islas Malvinas. Siempre Argentinas.

    Hmmmm... Not really.



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  • From poindexter FORTRAN@VERT/REALITY to Malvinas on Sunday, May 18, 2025 10:00:17
    -=> Malvinas wrote to All <=-

    Ma> I'm thinking about publishing articles in the form of an electronic
    Ma> magazine, distributed in a .zip with a few text files with the
    Ma> articles. Which software should I use? I would like it to be in ascii
    Ma> format and have some level of ascii art decor where the text would be
    Ma> inserted.

    I'd use any console text editor, just for consol-ey goodness. With most
    windowed text editors, you run into issues with word wrapping - change
    the size and you change where it wraps, which you don't want with a text
    editor.

    There are a ton of editors for DOS, TSEPro for Windows, and Linux
    distros all have nano, vi and joe available.






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