Is there a tool that can take a text file, wrap it at a given maximum width, add spaces to justify the text, and hyphenate words if it has to add too many spaces, à la LaTeX? I'm sure there are tools that will wrap and even justify, but I'm not sure about hyphenation.
2024-07-23 · 1 year ago
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Yes there is "par" (in the AUR):
$ cat file | par jw60
Also works in vim:
:%!par jw
Forgot to mention that to my knowledge it doesn't hyphenate words. It just adds spaces to justify.
🚀 jsreed5 [OP] · 2024-07-23 at 12:37:
@fab Thanks, I'll give that a try!
🎲 dozens · 2024-07-25 at 23:59:
groff! i used it to format my .project file which you can see at `finger dozens@tilde.town`. if you just have paragraphs, you should be able to `cat file.txt | nroff -ms -Tascii`
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