Friends Kingdom: Re: [iPad] need text-reformatting tool

Oh, sure - you don't end up with justified left and right margins. But that's not a problem; the point is that text is more readable in short lines than in long ones. Especially when your computer screen is very wide.

Also, the regexp would have to contain something like - if char# is eq or gt x, insert cr/lf and reset counter.

On Jun 16, 2014, at 10:33 AM, "Just Murray krismurray@gmail.com [iPad]" <iPad@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

Aha. Now I see. You in this case want carriage returns after every "apple"? Have you looked into the various word processors? And you do know that different font sizes screw this up right?

~KLM
\\ "Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure or nothing." ~Helen Keller //

On Jun 14, 2014, at 3:34 PM, "david smith david.smith.14916@gmail.com [iPad]" <iPad@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

Not exactly. Ordinarily, when a text is prepared with HTML, every paragraph has only one CR/LF. I want to put a CR/LF after every so many characters. So that, for example, an X-character paragraph might have Y lines of 10 characters each. So that, say, this

red apples blu apples red apples blu apples red apples blu apples red apples blu apples red apples blu apples red apples blu apples red apples blu apples red apples blu apples red apples blu apples red apples blu apples red apples blu apples

would become this:

red apples
blu apples
red apples
blu apples
red apples
blu apples
red apples
blu apples
red apples
blu apples
red apples
blu apples
red apples
blu apples
red apples
blu apples
red apples
blu apples
red apples
blu apples
red apples
blu apples

It's a very simple substitution problem, but no app I've found will do it.

On Jun 11, 2014, at 1:41 PM, "Just Murray krismurray@gmail.com [iPad]" <iPad@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

On my phone I see no difference except in sentence justification. Is that what you desire? Because that is what page maker and in design are for. IMO. Ymmv.

~KLM
\\ "Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure or nothing." ~Helen Keller //

On May 27, 2014, at 4:44 PM, "david smith david.smith.14916@gmail.com [iPad]" <iPad@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

I've spent an inordinate amount of time and $$ looking in vain thru the app store for an iOS tool that will reformat text - that is, take a paragraph of, say, X characters and break it into Y-character lines, thusly:

When in the course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the Earth the separate and equal station to which the laws of nature and of nature's god entitle them....

When in the course of human events
it becomes necessary for one people
to dissolve the political bands which have
connected them with another and to assume
among the powers of the Earth the separate
and equal station to which the laws of nature
and of nature's god entitle them....

Such a simple thing to do. It's easy in vi and in TextPad, my PC editor, but, apparently, impossible in 99% or more of the iOS editors available.

Does anyone know of a text editor that will do this?