demarginalization, or, Re: whoops, world english again

[Peter McGraw]

It's a good thought, but if you're using MS Word for the Macintosh (for
example), it won't work, because the "paste" function doesn't work in
the "replace" dialogue box.

On Tue, 27 Apr 1999 14:03:50 -0400 Mark_Mandel at DRAGONSYS.COM wrote:

> This article looks interesting. It's a shame that it's almost
> unreadable because it's so far indented that the second halves of the
> lines wrap around the margin and appear in counterpoint to the first
> halves.
>
> This often happens when one grabs a text off a web site and pastes it
> into a word processor. The proper treatment is to delete the
> indentation. In a mouse-capable editor, the fastest general way to do
> this may be to      1. SELECT the indented space, from the left margin
> to the beginning of one of the indented lines
>      2. COPY it      3. move the insertion cursor to the top of your
> copy of the article      4. call your SEARCH-AND-REPLACE function
>      5. PASTE that humongous stretch of white space as the text to
> "Find"      6. make sure the text to "Replace" it with is empty,
> nothing at all      7. click "Replace All".
>
>
> -- Mark
>
>      ====================================================
>
>                                 The author of "Gain" and "The Gold Bug
> Variations" picks five novels from the
>                                 edge of a new language.
>
>                                 - - - - - - - - - - - -
>                                 BY RICHARD POWERS
>
>                                 April 26, 1999 | The last 40 years have
> witnessed the apotheosis of
>                                 World English, a phenomenon in many ways
> without precedent in
>                                 the planet's history. English
> literature, too, has been brilliantly
>                                 enlarged by an explosion of novels that
> derive neither from the
>                                 British Isles nor from North America.
> The de-colonizing of the
>                                 globe continues to produce colonial
> revolts that forever change the
>                                 shape of the mother tongue. (The
> linguistic determinists tell only
>
>      [etc.]

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Peter A. McGraw
Linfield College
McMinnville, Oregon
pmcgraw at linfield.edu