Using par with Ed
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Last edited: $Date: 2018/07/27 17:06:09 $


Previous I  wrote about  using `par`  with vim or  with vi.  In both
editors, par can  be used as formatter, that  will give eye-pleasing
paragraphs.

I  try to  make  my gopher  pages  pretty with  `par`.  In order  to
maintain some muscle-memory, I also try to use Ed from time to time.
This article is written with Ed :)


## Using Ed to write the article

When using Ed  to write texts, `par`  has to be used  as an external
formatter.  To make  life a  little easier,  I wrote  a small  shell
script that will  run the text through `par`. It  also puts the line
below the top line to make it stand  out a bit as title, and it puts
the two RCS  keywords, Date and Id,  at the top resp.  bottom of the
text.

For these last two  steps I use a silly awk-script  that will do the
job fine.

The gophermap with  all the articles in it, is  generated from a RCS
repository. This  will help  to get all  the "last  edited at"-dates
right, and put the articles in chronological order in the gophermap.

So, the script that turns a small  text written in Ed into a article
with `par`, ends with a `ci`, to put the text in the RCS repo.

To make  future edits easier, the  original file is saved  to, so it
can be edited again with Ed.

The next steps could be to add spellchecking and perhaps a Makefile.
For now, I am happy with the script :)


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