Text formating

[Tommy Reynolds]

Uttered "Bill Gradwohl" <bill at ycc.com>, spake thus:

> What I'm trying to do is format pages of text that have arbitrary newline
> characters at position 72 and remove all of them except the ones that
> separate paragraphs. The fmt utility can fix up the sentence above, but it
> inserts newlines of its own. 
> 
> Does such a utility exist?

Take a look a Costello's "par" utility; it is a bit like "fmt" on
steroids and almost totally controllable via an environment macro.

Find it here:

    http://www.nicemice.net/par/

Cheers!
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