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Original Usenet message from alt.ascii-art, 11 Dec 1998.
Re: ASCII Editor for inserting Text in Borders

Re: ASCII Editor for inserting Text in Borders

>Subject: Re: ASCII Editor for inserting Text in Borders
>From: flu...@quadrant.xs4all.nl.spambgone (Hayley Jane Wakenshaw)
>Date: 12/10/98 6:10 PM Eastern Standard Time
>Message-id: <764...@hugbear.NL.net>
>
>Firedraake <fir...@earthlink.net> writes:
>>**********************************************************************
>>**********************************************************************
>>*** Does anyone know of a text editor that will insert text into   ***
>>*** borders without splitting single words between two lines?  
>
>I've never heard of one, but if there WAS such a proggie
>I'd be very interested. Especially if it could be used with
>ppl's own borders. I use my own borders, and at the minute 
>I have to put text in by hand, and I don't find it very 
>difficult: it's a little bit more effort than normal, but 
>worth it for the effect. :-)

     I sound like a broken record here, but, Email Effects (WIN95) does that. I
should have stock in that product by now. :)
     Copy and paste your border into EE and then copy your text, select the
area inside the border you want the text to be and then select paste inside
that selected area.

>If you're interested in e-mail borders btw, you might want
>to have a look at www.xs4all.nl/~klr/border.html ........
>
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