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perl scripts to generate rtf

perl script to pretty-print rtf. rtf is really no worse than troff, once you get past all the gratuitous crap that Word puts in. (Why oh why does Word feel compelled to include the entire font table in every document, rather than just the fonts that are actually used? Oh right, because it's Microsoft.)

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Kylie has been sick since Monday afternoon. Occasionally perky, more often droopy by day, vomitous by night. Took her to the doctor today; she was friendly and sympathetic, but singularly unhelpful (in the American sense of medicine - I want a firm diagnosis and a pill, now). It's not the flu, and it's probably not strep, so it's probably something viral. Took a throat culture anyway, just in case.

I really hope she's better by tomorrow, for Arisia. At Arisia '00, when she was 5, she got sick on Friday night, and stayed sick most of the weekend. We had to call housekeeping 4 times that night to replace sheets, blankets, pillows, etc. I couldn't bag out of the con, because I was chairman that year. Ah, memories. (Though it did underscore the fact that, if you did everything right, the conchair should not have to do much at the con.) So anyway, not that again.