From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Nov 21 15:53:19 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0067B1065670 for ; Fri, 21 Nov 2008 15:53:19 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from pwnedomina@gmail.com) Received: from ey-out-2122.google.com (ey-out-2122.google.com [74.125.78.27]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 823248FC0C for ; Fri, 21 Nov 2008 15:53:18 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from pwnedomina@gmail.com) Received: by ey-out-2122.google.com with SMTP id 6so408142eyi.7 for ; Fri, 21 Nov 2008 07:53:17 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from :user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject:references:in-reply-to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=tLh+AOa9mBrpiUQTxI4xpVV4QYzytMMphystjl2AGZQ=; b=lKIf3RoYFjCnxEdWthMXHo6XnuW+q2rR+P46ECGBMulV46iNBRJBSB8tmwmaCMzXmh Gq1eGtl8sJ91iK8JPaeSxqNiRtwgSaXLyPKPffW9q3Rs7Gidfq8OZTUTfOXT4n3H+RUQ RRp842ZiXvAsCygPXPc1xVZ5KofjUr0Dv6KI8= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject :references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=kpKMXuCZnmnz820R846P/13MvIso4rezbMaMsn7ykRFxAcjGl0IK/7hNK9LHDuYHhJ hhdPULNFSQLqd3M5me/nQvX6et4elEcjMg93evEImAKrrt1Tr9jw4aghvYIzjMsChsJc NdGQylhzAxs6QQdJyn5URbDdPlYN0gtXASRRc= Received: by 10.210.41.1 with SMTP id o1mr649016ebo.179.1227282797305; Fri, 21 Nov 2008 07:53:17 -0800 (PST) Received: from ?192.168.2.101? ([81.193.96.143]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id k5sm480571nfd.22.2008.11.21.07.53.15 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Fri, 21 Nov 2008 07:53:16 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <4926D965.8010104@gmail.com> Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2008 15:53:09 +0000 From: pwn User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.18 (Windows/20081105) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jonathan McKeown References: <4926922C.8050702@gmail.com> <200811211539.28898.jonathan+freebsd-questions@hst.org.za> In-Reply-To: <200811211539.28898.jonathan+freebsd-questions@hst.org.za> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ascii text format X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2008 15:53:19 -0000 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 (
 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?

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