Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcvax!enea!kth!draken!bmc1!kuling!irf
From: irf@kuling.UUCP (Bo Thide)
Newsgroups: comp.editors
Subject: Re: alignment on the right hand side
Keywords: alignment
Message-ID: <825@kuling.UUCP>
Date: 12 Sep 88 01:07:36 GMT
References: <15889@shemp.CS.UCLA.EDU>
Reply-To: irf@kuling.UUCP (Bo Thide)
Organization: Dept. of Computer Systems, Uppsala University, Sweden
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In article <15889@shemp.CS.UCLA.EDU> chang@cs.ucla.edu (Keh-Jeng Chang) writes:
>When I post articles on newsgroups, I always hope that
>there are some editors out there which can align the
>right hand side of my articles (like wordstar in PC).
>
>Do you know of any such editors?  Can 'vi' do it?

Yes, since 'vi' can filter an arbitrary portion of its buffer
through any filter you can use several methods to achieve
a justified right-hand margin.

E.g., for passing the text from the cursor to the end of the paragraph
through the command 'cmd', type
ESC!}cmd

Useful commands are 'fmt', 'adjust' and 'nroff'; see your UNIX manual.
I usually use 'adjust -jm60' to get justified margin at 60 coulmns.
On some (non-HP-UX) systems 'adjust' is missing and you have to use
the less powerful command 'fmt' instead.


-Bo
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