mfold - Maaniker's fold and column making
Peter Smidt
smidt at fy.chalmers.se
Thu Sep 13 21:05:28 AEST 1990
In article <1990Sep12.024441.21178 at zorch.SF-Bay.ORG> xanthian at zorch.SF-Bay.ORG (Kent Paul Dolan) writes:
>Suggested changes: 1) Make the Make the default "-w" value the
>"-i" default the null string, same as the current "-l" value. I
>rather than a tab; then "!}mfold" was unhappily surprised to see my
>in vi will flow a paragraph with reversed text also right adjusted
>relatively few keystrokes.(*) 2) on the screen.
1) Hmm, have to thing about it... But "!}mfold -i" is not that many
more keystrokes. Maybe I will change the default, but I like
'-i' best the way it is now.
2) One cann't make '-w' the same as '-l', try to make '-w' very small
or give an input with very long lines and a '-sn' where n > 1 AND
the '-d' flag.
I don't understand what you mean with 'unhappily' surprised
to see the reversed script right adjusted. Let a REAL
dyslexicer read the text. I have not meet a dyslexicer
so I am not sure if '-d' is the best way to make the
text easier to read. But if dyslexics can read text easier
upsidedown then this should be about the same?
>Suggested enhancements: 1) Respect paragraph breaks (whitespace lines)
>in input text when doing column set text, probably best as a line that
>is blank-within-the-column.
RTFM.
Look at the '-n' flag! :)
> 2) Seed a random number generator off
>something pretty universally available (the process-ID, maybe), so that
>subsequent calls to left-right justify a paragraph get different
>arrangements of space inserted (allows a second chance if the first one
>has ugly rivers). 3) Do _not_ fill the last line of left-right justified
>text (see right hand column above) with spaces whether column set or
>not; it comes out ugly.
2) Yes, the rivers are a little ugly.
3) Oh, this is a bug I've not been thinking of.
Someone pointed out for me that to make the right adjustment look
less ugly, mfold should place the space arond the longest words.
Thanks for the ideas.
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