Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2008 15:53:09 +0000 From: pwn <pwnedomina@gmail.com> To: Jonathan McKeown <jonathan+freebsd-questions@hst.org.za> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ascii text format Message-ID: <4926D965.8010104@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <200811211539.28898.jonathan%2Bfreebsd-questions@hst.org.za> References: <4926922C.8050702@gmail.com> <200811211539.28898.jonathan%2Bfreebsd-questions@hst.org.za>
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Jonathan McKeown wrote: > 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 > yes, i want that the text appears displayed such as manpages like, how can i accomplish this task? > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > >
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