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On Thursday 11 January 2007 17:55, Ben Goodger wrote: > On 11/01/07, Tom Potts <tompotts@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > I have not yet found an editor that doesn't have to be bludgeoned into > > realising that two adjacent sections of text have the same attributes and > > can > > be merged into one. > > That's what I meant. Most GUIs suffer from this, while sensible code > writers do it manually and avoid such nastiness. Or you can get the best of both worlds: Work in the Wysinwyg GUI cos its quick and then cut sections into a text editor and then paste them back. If, as I recommend, you stick to free flowing and not fixed/paper format you can, even if you don't take my advice and 're-factor' into several smaller doclets, clean up a large document quite quickly! Yours retentively... Tom te tom te tom -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html