Intro I keep a store of some of my emails as PDFs which I later have print and bound. So, what to do when some of those emails are sent in plain text instead of pdf format? Convert to PDF so they can be bound uniformly. From xmodulo1, there is a two-step process (after dependencies are acquired). Probably there’s a nifty way to do this in one-line, but I haven’t figured it out yet.

Updated: [2021-09-23 Thu] comment from Mark Intro Somewhere back in Emacs’ memory of text esoterica and ideas that don’t seem to have taken off, there is support for ascii page breaks: the idea that within a single text document, “pages” could be represented by special characters. This is before the dawn of word processors or orgmode or PDF files, and this is an idea that might still be useful for some enterprising archeologist.

There has been recent discussion about emacs for text editing and it got me thinking; I use emacs for a lot of non-code text editing and here are some features I use all the time that lead me to consider emacs good at text-editing. I’ll separate them into built-in and external library categories. What would you add to this list for things that help with raw text-editing (not IDE-like programming features)?