Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2008 15:39:28 +0200 From: Jonathan McKeown <jonathan+freebsd-questions@hst.org.za> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ascii text format Message-ID: <200811211539.28898.jonathan%2Bfreebsd-questions@hst.org.za> In-Reply-To: <4926922C.8050702@gmail.com> References: <4926922C.8050702@gmail.com>
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On Friday 21 November 2008 12:49:16 pwn wrote: > algouth this is not a freebsd specific text, i need to format some texts > under freebsd for they appear in the center of the page when opened in a > browser, but i dont want to use HTML for format them, i just want to add > tabulation to my *.txt. > what software/tool can i use for format my *.txt? there is command on > VIM like "set textwidth" but this is not suitable for me. any help i > appreciate. > i add an example on a temporary host for make sure all understand. > (i need to format the text for he appear like the example good.txt) > http://one.xthost.info/temphost/good.txt > http://one.xthost.info/temphost/bad.txt You seem to be fighting against your tools rather than working with them - the browser will strip out your whitespace and reflow your text anyway unless you prevent it somehow (<pre> tags?) so you might be better off just using HTML/CSS to control the format. However, you could look at various tools for processing text, depending exactly what you're trying to do: the manpages for fmt, groff, and pr might all offer some ideas. Jonathan
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