Re: [FWP] right-justified line wrapping

[Tom Rathborne <tomr@aceldama.com>]

On Thu, Jun 08, 2000 at 10:25:49AM -0400, John Porter wrote:
> Philip Newton wrote:
> > It's fun when you get left-and-right-justified text without
> > multiple spaces, just by careful selection of words -- called
> > "bricktext".
> 
> Yes, but that requires breaking words, and that requires having a
> dictionary annotated with legal word-breaks.

It needn't require you to break words. Take this paragraph for example. I
chose my words carefully and found that if I structured my sentences with
care, I could get a nicely-justified paragraph without any hyphenation. I
think this is what Philip was talking about. It would be quite impossible
to write a program to rearrange English sentences to fit like this. As an
exercise, however, I find it to be a lot of fun. In fact I could continue
like this for hours on end. However, I do have better things to do today.

Regards,

Tom

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