[HN Gopher] Reshaping Text
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       Reshaping Text
        
       Author : zdw
       Score  : 28 points
       Date   : 2022-09-23 18:05 UTC (2 days ago)
        
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       | siraben wrote:
       | One issue I've encountered in the past when using text formatted
       | with hard wrapping with non-technical people is that _presenting_
       | the information usually goes fine, but when they want to _edit_
       | the text a bunch of headaches ensue, since they don 't use
       | editors that reflow line endings or maintain spacing that would
       | only be clearly visible in a monospace context.
        
       | breck wrote:
       | Dammit it's very hard to go a day without getting a very high ROI
       | from reading HN.
        
       | entelechy0 wrote:
        
       | staplung wrote:
       | FWIW, if you could get almost the same effect from google docs
       | (and presumably excel): if you cut/copy a grid of cells and paste
       | it into something that only understands text (e.g. VScode) you'll
       | get tab-delimited columns of text. I don't know if there's a way
       | to get some of the niceties like left aligning but I've used
       | google docs for this sort of trick many times.                 1
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