formatting message content

Hello,

I use the QMHRTVM API to retrieve message descriptions from the message
file. If I want to show the retrieved second-level message text in my
program to the user, I will have to reformat this retrieved text,
because it is one long text.
Of course I can go and write my own text parser to reformat the
messagetext by the use of the formatting characters &N, &P, and &B that
are in the messagetext.
But I wonder if there's another way to do it. Maybe an API or some other
solution I don't know of.

Any point would be appreciated.

Thanks, Arco Simonse
pgmr