Re: [FWP] right-justified line wrapping

[sthoenna@efn.org (Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes)]

In article <393ED102.BDF59B16@kasey.umkc.edu>,
"David L. Nicol" <david@kasey.umkc.edu> wrote:
> Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote:
> 
> > Am I missing something ?
> 
> Nope, except for the backwards angle bracket RK pointed out.

Oops.

> > > perl -pe 's/(.{1,80})\s/$1\n/g'
> > 
> > I would make that (.{1,80}\S)\s+

Double oops. (I forgot to make that 0,79).
> *****
> 
> Word processors in the eighties had "justify" features that
> would right-justify text on fixed-width printers, by adding spaces.
> 
> Text::Wrap does not have a justify feature.  Looking at
> CPAN, there is Text::WrapProp but that is concerned with proportional
> typefaces, with their widths stored in a table.
> 
> 
> I have seen web pages "formatted" as plain text with old-style
> right-justification, as a joke.

I've seen it done in email too.  It's all but unreadable to me.

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