I've found that the text version of FAQ has some format problems, and then found that it was already reported one-and-half year ago: > 2021/01/30 4:35, Bart Schaefer wrote: > > However, when I do "cd Etc; make FAQ" on Ubuntu 20.04.1 LTS, I get > some strange formatting. (snip) > That is, most paragraphs get a hanging left indent (outdent?), It seems yodl removes any indent of the 1st line of a paragraph in text mode by default (a paragraph is started by a blank line). But at line 152 of the FAQ: (As a method of reading the following in Emacs, you can type \M-2 \C-x $ to make all the indented text vanish, ... I have _NO_ experience with emacs, but I guess the lack of indent would break this feature? With some trial and error, I found the indent can be preserved by the following patch. But with this patch two or more consecutive blank lines in FAQ.yo are copied to the text output as is. I guess the symbol XXparagraph contains all the preceding blank lines. Using ifnewparagraph() didn't work. So I removed many blank lines. These trivial changes are only included in the attached file. diff --git a/Etc/FAQ.yo b/Etc/FAQ.yo index 8a6895454..ebe86c202 100644 --- a/Etc/FAQ.yo +++ b/Etc/FAQ.yo @@ -57,6 +57,11 @@ def(emdash)(0)(\ whentxt(--))\ SUBST(_LPAR_)(CHAR(40))\ SUBST(_RPAR_)(CHAR(41)) +COMMENT(-- preserve the indent of the 1st line of paragraph --)\ +IFDEF(txt)(\ + DEFINESYMBOL(XXparagraph)()\ + PUSHMACRO(PARAGRAPH)(0)(SYMBOLVALUE(XXparagraph))\ +)() myreport(Z-Shell Frequently-Asked Questions)(Peter Stephenson)(2010/02/15) COMMENT(-- the following are for Usenet and must appear first)\ description(\