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

[Paul A. Franz, P.E.]

On Sat, May 10, 2008 1:26 pm, Phil Mocek wrote:
> 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
>

Thanks - I got it to work but not until I ran ran "export" on the env variable. Any
idea why this was necessary?

[root at Beaker root]# PARINIT="rTbgjqR B=.,?_A_a Q=_s>|"
[root at Beaker root]# echo $PARINIT
rTbgjqR B=.,?_A_a Q=_s>|
[root at Beaker root]# cat ~/bin/test.save | par -w60
General

The maillog file ( /var/log/maillog) is examined for the
date specified and is reported in the following sections.

Section 1

First the total number of apparent spams blocked then the
number of spamming attempts that were blocked by all methods
to each recipient are listed in descending order of number
of attempted spams. Invalid users are obviously due to
spammers mismanaging their lists.

General

The maillog file ( /var/log/maillog ) is examined for the
date specified and is reported in the following sections.

Section 1

First the total number of apparent spams blocked then the
number of spamming attempts that were blocked by all methods
to each recipient are listed in descending order of number
of attempted spams. Invalid users are obviously due to
spammers mismanaging their lists.

[root at Beaker root]# export PARINIT
[root at Beaker root]# cat ~/bin/test.save | par -w60
General

The  maillog file  ( /var/log/maillog)  is examined  for the
date specified and is reported in the following sections.

Section 1

First the  total number of  apparent spams blocked  then the
number of spamming attempts that were blocked by all methods
to each recipient  are listed in descending  order of number
of  attempted  spams. Invalid  users are  obviously  due  to
spammers mismanaging their lists.

General

The maillog  file ( /var/log/maillog  ) is examined  for the
date specified and is reported in the following sections.

Section 1

First the  total number of  apparent spams blocked  then the
number of spamming attempts that were blocked by all methods
to each recipient  are listed in descending  order of number
of  attempted  spams. Invalid  users are  obviously  due  to
spammers mismanaging their lists.