Date   : Thu, 22 Sep 2011 07:00:48 +0100
From   : info@... (Sprow)
Subject: Text conversion ?

In article <7C2BBA4D-4DA3-4B18-8439-2F11D58AD2C7@...>,
   Darren Grant <darren.grant@...> wrote:

> On 21 Sep 2011, at 22:17, Rob wrote:

> > For the most part, the Beeb /IS/ ASCII ...  
>
> What I am trying to do is convert all of the domesday articles into XML 
>
> The other odd thing about these files is every line starts with a space.

Unless I misremember aren't the Domesday articles shown in MODE 7? The
leading space would thus allow the article to be loaded directly into screen
memory, and for the text colour (or double height) selected on the fly by
poking over the leading space?
Sprow.