Text readers

What are some programs that can display plain text documents in a formatted book like quality?

Any web browser (esp. decent ones like Mozilla), for example. You could make a very simple style sheet and HTML template, then include the text file somehow (server-side includes or whatever you like).

You could also use regex (sed, Perl, PHP, ...) to add formatting to it like <P>, see if you can do anything with titles within the text (if they match like /^[0-9]+\. [A-Z0-9 ]+$/), and so on.

You could try this:

<div align="justify"
Stuffblahblah
</div>

Everything in between the opening and ending div tags will be justified like a book. You can also play around with font size, font face and such. That's only if you're working with HTML though... if you're just using Notepad or Wordpad, there's no dice for help.

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roblem with this is it'll take EOLs as whitespace. You'd get all paragraphs mixed together in a single, huge chunk of text. That's why you'd want to use <PRE>formatted text, or what's better, parse it to axe single EOLs and convert double EOLs to <P> preceded by <BR>s for as many extra EOLs you have together.