Previous I wrote about using `par` with vim or with vi. In both
editors, par can be used as formatter, that will give eye-pleasing
paragraphs.
I try to make my gopher pages pretty with `par`. In order to
maintain some muscle-memory, I also try to use Ed from time to time.
This article is written with Ed :)
## Using Ed to write the article
When using Ed to write texts, `par` has to be used as an external
formatter. To make life a little easier, I wrote a small shell
script that will run the text through `par`. It also puts the line
below the top line to make it stand out a bit as title, and it puts
the two RCS keywords, Date and Id, at the top resp. bottom of the
text.
For these last two steps I use a silly awk-script that will do the
job fine.
The gophermap with all the articles in it, is generated from a RCS
repository. This will help to get all the "last edited at"-dates
right, and put the articles in chronological order in the gophermap.
So, the script that turns a small text written in Ed into a article
with `par`, ends with a `ci`, to put the text in the RCS repo.
To make future edits easier, the original file is saved to, so it
can be edited again with Ed.
The next steps could be to add spellchecking and perhaps a Makefile.
For now, I am happy with the script :)
