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Re: line length recipe?

1998-03-05 23:50:33
On Thu, 5 Mar 1998 14:46:32 -0600 (CST),
dattier(_at_)wwa(_dot_)com (David W. Tamkin) wrote:
Dave Robbins asked,
| I'm wondering if there is any recipe out there that would reformat
| any lines not beginning with a header, not beginning with a blank line
| or a tab and not beginning with standard indent prefixes such as ">".
<...>
# brackets enclose caret,space,tab,greater-than,less-than,colon,pipe
:0Bbfw # seventy-nine dots on continuation line
* ^[^        ><:|]\
...............................................................................
| fold

And if you're disappointed with the paragraph-reformatting features of
fold(1), there's a program called par you can try instead. I've given
up on trying to understand it but it's pretty indistinguishable from
magic sometimes.

<http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~amc/Par/>

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