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Problem inserting text into file after specific line

this is utterly embarassing Smilie

after posting here i revisited my files and found that when i used "vi" instead of a gui based editor, i suddenly found that the indentations were in fact wrong Smilie

sorry about this Smilie

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ESPEAK-GUI(1)						      General Commands Manual						     ESPEAK-GUI(1)

NAME
espeak-gui - graphical user interface for the eSpeak voice synthesizer SYNOPSIS
espeak-gui [OPTIONS] [FILES] DESCRIPTION
espeak-gui is a little application to let the computer read out text for you. If you run espeak-gui listing one or more text files as arguments, the content of those files will be loaded automatically. OPTIONS
The program follows the usual GNU command line syntax, with options starting with two dashes (`--'). A summary of options is included below. --version Shows which version of espeak-gui is being executed and exits. --help Shows a short help message listing all supported options and exits. SEE ALSO
espeak BUGS
Please report any bugs on https://bugs.launchpad.net/espeak-gui. AUTHORS
Siegfried-Angel Gevatter Pujals <siegfried@gevatter.com> Joe Burmeister <joe.a.burmeister@googlemail.com> LICENSE
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