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    From Malvinas@TECHNOA to All on Fri May 16 18:54:58 2025
    I'm thinking about publishing articles in the form of an electronic magazine, distributed in a .zip with a few text files with the articles.
    Which software should I use? I would like it to be in ascii format and have some level of ascii art decor where the text would be inserted.

    Malvinas.

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  • From Gamgee@PALANTIR to Malvinas on Sat May 17 08:29:15 2025
    Malvinas wrote to All <=-

    I'm thinking about publishing articles in the form of an electronic magazine, distributed in a .zip with a few text files with the
    articles. Which software should I use? I would like it to be in ascii format and have some level of ascii art decor where the text would be inserted.

    I'd say nano, or vim.

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    Hmmmm... Not really.



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  • From poindexter FORTRAN@REALITY to Malvinas on Sun May 18 10:00:17 2025
    Subject: Re: soft for an e-zine in ascii text mode
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    Malvinas wrote to All <=-

    I'm thinking about publishing articles in the form of an electronic magazine, distributed in a .zip with a few text files with the
    articles. Which software should I use? I would like it to be in ascii format and have some level of ascii art decor where the text would be inserted.

    I'd use any console text editor, just for consol-ey goodness. With most windowed text editors, you run into issues with word wrapping - change
    the size and you change where it wraps, which you don't want with a text editor.

    There are a ton of editors for DOS, TSEPro for Windows, and Linux
    distros all have nano, vi and joe available.






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  • From Mortar@EOTLBBS to Malvinas on Mon Jun 23 23:50:17 2025
    Re: soft for an e-zine in ascii text mode
    By: Malvinas to All on Fri May 16 2025 18:54:58

    Which software should I use? I would like it to be in ascii format and have some level of ascii art decor where the text would be inserted.

    Since you want to incorporate ANSI art, why not use an ANSI editor, like Icy Draw, Moebius, REXdraw, etc. The text formatting would have to done manually, but you'd have full freedom on where everything goes.

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