From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Aug 29 05:47:46 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id FAA01290 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 29 Aug 1997 05:47:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.virginia.edu (mail.Virginia.EDU [128.143.2.9]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id FAA01277 for ; Fri, 29 Aug 1997 05:47:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ares.cs.virginia.edu by mail.virginia.edu id aa24689; 29 Aug 97 8:47 EDT Received: from archive.cs.Virginia.EDU (root@archive.cs.Virginia.EDU [128.143.136.9]) by ares.cs.Virginia.EDU (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id IAA14099; Fri, 29 Aug 1997 08:47:40 -0400 (EDT) Received: from stretch.cs.Virginia.edu (atf3r@stretch-fo.cs.Virginia.EDU [128.143.136.14]) by archive.cs.Virginia.EDU (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id IAA18791; Fri, 29 Aug 1997 08:47:39 -0400 (EDT) Received: by stretch.cs.Virginia.edu (4.1/SMI-2.0) id AA02330; Fri, 29 Aug 97 08:47:38 EDT Date: Fri, 29 Aug 1997 08:47:38 -0400 (EDT) From: "Adrian T. Filipi-Martin" Reply-To: adrian@virginia.edu To: Marco Molteni Cc: William Bulley , questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: A filter for reformatting paragraphs (WAS: installation) In-Reply-To: Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Thu, 28 Aug 1997, Marco Molteni wrote: > On Thu, 28 Aug 1997, William Bulley wrote: > > > According to Marco Molteni: > > > > > > Have you ever tried Par, a filter for reformatting paragraphs ? > > > You can find it in the ports. > > > > I just looked in the ports on a 2.2-970814-RELENG machine and > > could not any "par"... > > > > Could you please be more explicit? Thanks. > > Sure! Have a look at > > http://www.freebsd.org/ports/textproc.html > You'll find par-1.50 > > Cheers > Marco Yes, but don't forget about /usr/bin/fmt. This does an adequate job at reformating paragraphs. I use it form vi all the time with !}fmt cheers, Adrian -- adrian@virginia.edu ---->>>>| If I were stranded on a desert island, and System Administrator --->>>| I could only have one OS for my computer, Neurosurgical Visualzation Lab -->>| it would be FreeBSD. Think about it..... http://www.nvl.virginia.edu/ ->| http://www.freebsd.org/