Re: [FWP] right-justified line wrapping

[Adam Sampson <azz@gnu.org>]

On Thu, Jun 08, 2000 at 11:54:55AM -0400, tomr@aceldama.com 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. [...]

... but it would be fun trying! Is there a good source of free thesaurus
data?

-- 

Adam Sampson
azz@gnu.org

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