>I've tried to avoid going HTML for well over a decade at this
>point - I still hate the way it displays paragraphsI apologize if you already know this, but it sounds like you don't. It's possible to duplicate your usual ASCII paragraph style in HTML with only a tiny bit of a stylesheet: put this anywhere in the document (inside <head> preferred), and you're done.
<style>
p {
margin: 0;
max-width: 30em;
text-indent: 3em;
}
<style>
Change the lengths as suits, natch. Other useful things you might want to throw in there are: "font-family: monospace;" gets you a fixed-width font, and "line-height: 0.99;" will tighten up the spacing between lines (conversely, use a number larger than 1 to spread it out a bit more).