X-Google-Thread: f996b,9179d4b6546e4b1e X-Google-Attributes: gidf996b,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news4.google.com!news.germany.com!aioe.org!not-for-mail From: Rusty Newsgroups: alt.ascii-art Subject: Re: Text editor Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2008 09:05:08 -0700 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Lines: 21 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: FBPa6GYhc29ru3NhOY07sg.user.aioe.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.9 (Windows/20071031) Xref: g2news1.google.com alt.ascii-art:5279 Anton wrote: > Hello all! > > I thought my question might partly fall under the Page Making > branch of ASCII-art: > > Do you know of handy text editors that'd allow for formatting > text using ascii-art methods. I mean paragraph alignment by > spaces, columns, wrapping, tables, hanging idents and so on. > > Well, MS Wors 5.5 for MSDOS can do part of it, but it's not > very powerful at this anyway... IIRC, Wordperfect 5.1 was better than DOS MS Word. > > Thanks in advance, > Anton Another program worth trying is Thedraw http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TheDraw