I love mornings! I’ve been an early riser for the past six or seven years and I wouldn’t give up those beautiful mornings for anything. There’s something magical about the morning before the sun rises.

I feel like I hardly have any free time anymore. But it’s a good thing. (Even though it doesn’t always feel like it, admittedly.)

The Ball and the Cross is now officially on Project Gutenberg as etext #5265. Cool. I’ve reformatted two chapters of Further Chronicles of Avonlea and tonight I should be able to get half of it done. I really can’t wait till I have a scanner and can do books on my own. Work’s going well. I’m working on an XML schema at the moment for it.

I reformatted two chapters of Further Chronicles of Avonlea by hand, wrapping the lines at 65 characters (from the 80 or so they were originally). Just a few minutes ago I realized that Vim had to have a feature to do that automatically. And it does: the gq operator. (You’ve just been spared an awful pun, by the way.) I select the whole file in visual mode (though there’s probably an easier way to do it), then type gq in command mode. Each line will be wrapped at whatever the textwidth variable is set to. (For Project Gutenberg texts I have it set at 65.) If I want to reformat the rest of the current paragraph, I just go to command mode and then type gq}. (I’m sure there’s a way to wrap the whole paragraph and not just the rest of it, but I haven’t found it yet. [Note: it’s gqap]) It’s wonderfully nice and will save me a lot of time. I wish I’d known about it earlier…

Thanks to gq I was able to finish Further Chronicles of Avonlea in a fraction of the time. So it’s done, but I can’t submit it till I get copyright clearance.