[SLL] left and right justified text [fully justified]

[Phil Mocek]

On Sat, May 10, 2008 at 12:53:30PM -0700, Paul A. Franz, P.E. wrote:
> Does anyone know of a utility other than lex that can [format
> plain text fully justified]?

Par, the paragraph reformatter, does that well.

Its configuration syntax is somewhat difficult to learn.  Its man
page states:

    For those who wish to use it immediately and understand it
    later, assign the PARINIT environment variable the following
    value:
                     rTbgqR B=.,?_A_a Q=_s>|

You'll want to add a 'j' in there.  I don't know if the position
matters, but if you set PARINIT="rTbgjqR B=.,?_A_a Q=_s>|" then
pipe some text through par, it will come out fully-justified to a
72-character line width.


See:

 * <http://www.nicemice.net/par/>
 * <http://jmcpherson.org/par.html>
 * <http://packages.debian.org/stable/par>

-- 
Phil Mocek