Text formating

[Matthew Miller]

On Mon, Apr 26, 2004 at 09:48:12AM -0500, Bill Gradwohl wrote:
> 	Mary has a little lamb, it's fleece was white as snow.

Also you want one that changes it to "its fleece". :)

> 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 about exclamation or question or quotation marks?

> 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?

perl. There's several CPAN modules dealing with text wrapping.

Or you count try fmt with a very very large value for -w.....


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