Re: [FWP] right-justified line wrapping

[Piers Cawley <pdcawley@bofh.org.uk>]

Tom Rathborne <tomr@aceldama.com> writes:

> 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.

Perhaps when you find that easy you could try for a straight margin whilst 
encoding some message in the left hand column of the message. Or you could
really get fancy and do something in the right hand column, but that might
lead to incoherent, circumlocutary prose. Which would be bad... and wrong.

-- 
Piers

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