Sometimes I need the same text a few times with only a few modifications, like: for posting in my WordPress and in discussion boards. As I found it pointless to have one separate text file per format, I usually write it pseudo-formatted and do some regex search and replace on the fly.
Some days ago I had an idea how to optimize handling such things:
"Multi-paged" plaintext.
My approach:
I define a "separator" as a page-break symbol and split the text into multiple tabs then.
Raw draft:
This is text on page 1. Some more text. Yay!
==========================
This is text on page 2. Look how funny it is. Dance, joy.
--->
________________________________________
| Tabbed Plaintext Editor |_|X|
|________________________________________|
| |________ |
| Page 1 | Page 2 | |
|________|________|______________________|
| |
| This is text on page 1. (...) |
| |
|________________________________________|
Pro:* The "tabbed" text files are still plaintext, so they can be edited even with Notepad.
* No bells & whistles, only splitting.
Con:Well, name them. I wanted to start coding it in January or something, so if there is something wrong with my thoughts, it would be fine if I knew it in time.
:)