Pilot: DocReader Book File Creation & PERL

[Gene Cannata <Gene.Cannata@xxxxxxx>]

DocReader is a great app, maybe even a killer app. 

To beautify text (strip CRs, break into chapters, etc) the natural
tool would be PERL. 

A script could easily break books into chapters. This could be done
automatically every n lines. Or, if you are willing to manually insert
some unique text at every chapter heading, a script could break the
chapters into seperate "books" at these marks.

Personally I place bookmarks at the chapter headings in the text after
synching them into the pilot. If we could get MakeDoc6 author Pat
Beirne to put a hook in for creating DocReader book marks, this manual
step could also be perfromed by a perl script based on your 
inserted chapter break markings.

script info: 
You will need to change the file path and file name. The
script below will strip CRs followed by 3 spaces out of ascii text,
while leaving paragraph intact. This was specifically how text I
wanted to convert was formatted. It must be modified to suit the
format of text you are creating.

script:

open(TXTIN,  "c:/pilot/add-on/doc/artofwar.txt");
open(TXTOUT, ">c:/pilot/add-on/doc/artofwa2.txt");
select (TXTOUT);
$/="\n\n";

while (<TXTIN>) {
$_=~ s/\n   //g;
print "$_";
}

close (TXTIN);
close (TXTOUT);