User dbucklin has an interesting introduction to troff and a
justification for  its use as  a formatting tool  for gopher
content[1]. The amount  of thought and study  that went into
writing even  the phlog  post about it  makes me  ashamed to
admit that I just type in  lines and press enter when things
get to around 60 characters.  I'm exceptionally lazy with my
gopher formatting.

There are  some phlogs out  there that just  have oustanding
formatting. They  have justified  paragraphs that  look nice
and are easy  to read. Some have ascii art.  It appears that
people put  some thought  and effort  into the  process, and
that is wonderful. I've wanted to  do a bit better, but I've
been lazy about it.

I'll have to cut a corner off my geek card for admitting it,
but I  like to use  nano to type my  posts. Sure, I  can use
other editors, and I have used  a wide variety of editors on
a wide variety  of systems, but I just like  editors of this
kind- ones that don't force  me to memorize things. It makes
me happy. If  I'm feeling really saucy,  I'll use 'mousepad'
in X, which provides for a nice background color change at a
user-definable width; and  when I'm done I'll  paste my text
into a terminal.

And yet, I'm not entirely pleased with the workflow. I tried
"par" out, which was suggested  in some old gopher post that
I can't recall right now, and I liked it, but I haven't done
it since.  I'm going to try  it now on this  document- which
I'm  typed  with  soft-wrapping  on  in  nano,  and  without
entering my manual line breaks-  and I'll see how that goes.
It would be "something."

[1] gopher://sdf.org:70/0/users/dbucklin/posts/gopher_groff.txt