Text formating

[Jeff Vian]

Rick Chen wrote:

>On Tue, 2004-04-27 at 00:48, Bill Gradwohl wrote:
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>>I'm looking for a utility that will change:
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>>	Mary had a\n
>>	little\n
>>	lamb, it's fleece was white\n
>>	as snow.\n
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>>To:
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>>	Mary has a little lamb, it's fleece was white as snow.
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>>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.
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>>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. 
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>>Does such a utility exist?
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>I use gedit and do a search and replace!
>search "\n"
>replace with ""
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Probably want to replace with " " (a space, instead of an empty string).

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