> >>>>> "Richard" == Richard E Hawkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> Richard> I'd offer to do it, but at the moment, I'm in over my head.
> Richard> It would be mid-august (at the earliest). But I've attached
> Richard> the tarball for mailmerge, in case anyone else wants to steal
> Richard> the code or see how it worked. But it was pretty much the
> Richard> same problem.
>
> I'll have a quick look.
Later that night, I recalled exactly how i solved it: before the cut/
paste, I insert the text "MAGICMARKERSTRING" or some such, then do the
cut/paste, then delete the string. It was a hack to stop the
collapsing spaces before I was ready for them. Some type of
place-holding inset would probably be a better idea. Aside from being
a hack, this would give weird results if the text used as a string
happened to be part of the replacement text . . .
--
