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blocker.rst

Block Conversion

Author: Charles Childers
Version: 2009.12.21

Blocker User's Guide

Overview

Retro includes a block editor (red), and has a more capable editor (rem) in the forthlets package. Since it's often easier to edit code in a text file (especially if you're sharing it), having a set of words to format text into blocks and blocks back into text is useful.

Text to Blocks

Enter the following at the root of the forthlets directory:

./retro --with input_file --with apps/blocker.retro

Replace input_file with the file you want to convert to blocks.

Blocks to Text

In a Retro with blocker.retro loaded:

totext
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