Text formating

[Rick Chen]

On Tue, 2004-04-27 at 00:48, Bill Gradwohl wrote:
> I'm looking for a utility that will change:
> 
> 	Mary had a\n
> 	little\n
> 	lamb, it's fleece was white\n
> 	as snow.\n
> 
> To:
> 
> 	Mary has a little lamb, it's fleece was white as snow.
> 
> Further, I'd like it to recognize the period at the end of a sentence as the
> only possible place where a new line might be appropriate as a separator
> before the next paragraph.
> 
> 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?
> 
I use gedit and do a search and replace!
search "\n"
replace with ""