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I love the PWB! [line break] Sometimes the best stuff does not have the best marketing.

Any chance the author can post a copy of the documentation his father had saved for the Documenter's Work Bench?

So many UNIX utilities are line-based, paragraphs just complicate things. [line break] Yet we still type in paragraphs.

You can take the above text and feed it through fmt (one of my favorite utilities) and you get an opening paragraph with two sentences, a single line paragraph, and a final paragraph with two sentences. You can control the line length too. Want 40-column output for better readability? Easy, when using fmt. But you need input that is single lines.

Have you ever ran PDF's through pdftotext or pdftohtml and been frustrated by the formatting? Line breaks from hell.

If documents were distributed in the format the author describes we could convert them into PDF's and other pretty printing formats. But converting from these "paragraphed" formats into readable plain text can be a real nuisance.