[SLL] left and right justified text
Phil Hughes
nicafyl at gmail.com
Sat May 10 13:28:18 PDT 2008
well, man pages are done using troff. nroff it its monospace font sister.
So, any normal man page (that is, formatted using the man macros) will be
printed justified in a monospace font if you print them with nroff.
On Sat, May 10, 2008 at 1:53 PM, Paul A. Franz, P.E. <paul at eucleides.com>
wrote:
> I can display text using more than one word processor formatted with a
> monospace font
> that is justified left and right but I haven't been able to save the
> resulting text
> formatted. I have tried configuring a text printer writing to file and the
> formatting
> is lost. I have tried saving to a file as text, same thing.
>
> I thought maybe vim could do it. Not so, it's a line editor mostly.
>
> Does anyone know of a utility other than lex that can do it?
>
> I want it for formatting the text for use man pages to look nice and for
> formatting
> comments in script files and programs.
>
>
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