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From: smidt@fy.chalmers.se (Peter Smidt)
Newsgroups: alt.sources.d
Subject: Re: mfold - Maaniker's fold and column making
Message-ID: <1990Sep13.110528.25464@fy.chalmers.se>
Date: 13 Sep 90 11:05:28 GMT
References: <1990Sep9.164538.6621@fy.chalmers.se> <1990Sep12.024441.21178@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG>
Organization: Chalmers University of Technology, G|teborg, Sweden
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In article <1990Sep12.024441.21178@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG> xanthian@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG (Kent Paul Dolan) writes:
>Suggested changes:  1)  Make  the      Make the default "-w"  value  the
>"-i"  default  the  null  string,      same as the current "-l" value. I
>rather than a tab; then "!}mfold"      was unhappily surprised to see my
>in vi will flow a paragraph  with      reversed text also right adjusted
>relatively few keystrokes.(*)  2)      on          the           screen.

1) Hmm, have to thing about it... But "!}mfold -i" is not that many
more keystrokes. Maybe I will change the default, but I like
'-i' best the way it is now.

2) One cann't make '-w' the same as '-l', try to make '-w' very small
or give an input with very long lines and a '-sn' where n > 1 AND
the '-d' flag.

I don't understand what you mean with 'unhappily' surprised
to see the reversed script right adjusted. Let a REAL 
dyslexicer read the text. I have not meet a dyslexicer
so I am not sure if '-d' is the best way to make the
text easier to read. But if dyslexics can read text easier
upsidedown then this should be about the same?

>Suggested enhancements: 1) Respect paragraph breaks  (whitespace  lines)
>in input text when doing column set text, probably best as a  line  that
>is blank-within-the-column.

RTFM.
Look at the '-n' flag! :)

> 2) Seed   a   random  number  generator  off
>something pretty universally available (the process-ID, maybe), so  that
>subsequent  calls  to  left-right  justify  a  paragraph  get  different
>arrangements of space inserted (allows a second chance if the first  one
>has ugly rivers). 3) Do _not_ fill the last line of left-right justified
>text (see right hand column above) with spaces  whether  column  set  or
>not;             it             comes             out              ugly.

2) Yes, the rivers are a little ugly.

3) Oh, this is a bug I've not been thinking of.

Someone pointed out for me that to make the right adjustment look
less ugly, mfold should place the space arond the longest words.


Thanks for the ideas.

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