Re: [FWP] right-justified line wrapping

[Simon Whitaker <simon@netcetera.org>]

On 11 Jun 2000 02:22:15 +0100, Piers Cawley wrote:

> > 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.

The real connoisseurs insist on hanging punctuation, which   I o e m
gives the right-hand side of the text a cleaner appearance     u x y
as all the punctuation characters are left dangling in mid-  b t p s
air. The best thing about "bricktext" (nice name for it, I   l l r e
feel) is that the heretics who read mail in proportionally-  a o e l
spaced fonts miss out. Thus it remains solely the property   m o s f
of the puritans amongst us, our last bastion against those   e k s
nasty bells-and-whistles mail clients which default to all-
singing, all-dancing, HTML-enabled, vCard-ed, e-stationery-
besplattered formatting. Urgh! OK, rant over. I'll go back
to thinking about perl now.

All the best,

Simon

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