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From: merlyn@iwarp.intel.com (Randal L. Schwartz)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.misc,comp.editors
Subject: Re: VI (can you fully justify test)
Keywords: VI, vi, editing tricks
Message-ID: <1991Mar13.164026.12718@iwarp.intel.com>
Date: 13 Mar 91 16:40:26 GMT
References: <668287724.2919@mindcraft.com> <1991Mar07.010020.294@convex.com> <1991Mar10.215552.8366@hybrid.UUCP> <1991Mar12.055337.10655@vpnet.chi.il.us>
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In-Reply-To: dattier@vpnet.chi.il.us (David W. Tamkin)

In article <1991Mar12.055337.10655@vpnet.chi.il.us>, dattier@vpnet (David W. Tamkin) writes:
| fmt must be something in BSD Unix.  The question of justifying within vi
| comes up often, and someone always says "Filter through fmt, that's all!"
| 
| Then someone else says, "There's no fmt on my system."  I've certainly never
| found it anywhere I've had shell access.
| 
| (Actually, fmt, if it does what I think it does, will just reduce the
| raggedness of the right edge; it won't right-justify text.  My personal
| opinion is that ragged-right text is far easier to read, but that's another
| matter.  Perhaps there are some command-line options to fmt that will make it
| actually justify the right margin or, if that's what it does with no options
| specified, there might be an option to have it produce output with a ragged
| right margin as great as possible without exceeding a specified maximum.)

If the text is simple (relatively troff-escape free), I just put

	.ad b
	.ll 70
	.pl 1

in front, and say

	!!nroff

Simple.

Just another 'roff hacker,
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