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by **Michael Wa** » Sat, 28 Mar 1998 04:00:00

Is there something similar to fmt, or an option for fmt,
that can make adjustment to make a paragraph flush on
the left side and right side. And better yet, to make
the paragraph flush on the left/right/middle? one or two
chars mismatch won't hurt.

I am not a big fun of Micro$oft and I was forced to use
WORD yesterday. And I found features that vi and external
prgrams yet to match. thesaurus is really useful in
composing an article.

by **Preben 'Peppe' Guldbe** » Sat, 28 Mar 1998 04:00:00

Quote:> Is there something similar to fmt, or an option for fmt,
> that can make adjustment to make a paragraph flush on
> the left side and right side. And better yet, to make
> the paragraph flush on the left/right/middle? one or two
> chars mismatch won't hurt.

Have you tried par as an alternative to fmt?

With vim you can use :left, :right and :center to make such alignments. It
is trickier to make left _and_ right alignment. I have once made a couple
of macros to do this in vanilla vi - I lost them when enhancing them for
vim :-( If you want a copy to fiddle with, let me know.

Peppe
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by **Michael Wa** » Sat, 28 Mar 1998 04:00:00

>> Is there something similar to fmt, or an option for fmt,
>> that can make adjustment to make a paragraph flush on
>> the left side and right side. And better yet, to make
>> the paragraph flush on the left/right/middle? one or two
>> chars mismatch won't hurt.

>Have you tried par as an alternative to fmt?

There is no par on solaris.

by **T.E.Dicke** » Sat, 28 Mar 1998 04:00:00

: There is no par on solaris.
http://www.veryComputer.com/~amc/Par/
>Par 1.50 - paragraph reformatter

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by **Jesus M. Castagnet** » Sun, 29 Mar 1998 04:00:00

Hello Michael,

1998 20:20:23 GMT):

>>> Is there something similar to fmt, or an option for fmt,
>>> that can make adjustment to make a paragraph flush on
>>> the left side and right side. And better yet, to make
>>> the paragraph flush on the left/right/middle? one or two
>>> chars mismatch won't hurt.

>>Have you tried par as an alternative to fmt?

>There is no par on solaris.

You got to get par and compile it for your platform. It is more
flexible than fmt and understands indenting and* indents and
justification. Check your favorite search engine for the web site. I
forgot where I got my copy, and I am running Solaris at work, so it
works OK, no problem compiling it.

Good luck.

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by **Jon LaBad** » Sun, 29 Mar 1998 04:00:00

|> Is there something similar to fmt, or an option for fmt,
|> that can make adjustment to make a paragraph flush on
|> the left side and right side. And better yet, to make
|> the paragraph flush on the left/right/middle? one or two
|> chars mismatch won't hurt.
|>
|> I am not a big fun of Micro$oft and I was forced to use
|> WORD yesterday. And I found features that vi and external
|> prgrams yet to match. thesaurus is really useful in
|> composing an article.

The oldtimer in me says consider nroff.

Insert a line or two of specifications, like

.pl 1 # page length so you don't get 66
.ll 50 # character line length
.ad # adjust (defaults to both, also l, r, c)
.hy # hyphenation? (0 or 1 I think)

Then do your same !} or !G command to nroff.

As to thesaurus, look for wordnet, maybe xwordnet.
I don't use it much but it has similar properties.

jl
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vi: !}fmt to flush left, left/right, right, middle

vi: !}fmt to flush left, left/right, right, middle

vi: !}fmt to flush left, left/right, right, middle

vi: !}fmt to flush left, left/right, right, middle

vi: !}fmt to flush left, left/right, right, middle

vi: !}fmt to flush left, left/right, right, middle

vi: !}fmt to flush left, left/right, right, middle