On Mon, Apr 26, 2004 at 09:48:12AM -0500, Bill Gradwohl wrote: > Mary has a little lamb, it's fleece was white as snow. Also you want one that changes it to "its fleece". :) > Further, I'd like it to recognize the period at the end of a sentence as the > only possible place where a new line might be appropriate as a separator > before the next paragraph. What about exclamation or question or quotation marks? > What I'm trying to do is format pages of text that have arbitrary newline > characters at position 72 and remove all of them except the ones that > separate paragraphs. The fmt utility can fix up the sentence above, but it > inserts newlines of its own. > > Does such a utility exist? perl. There's several CPAN modules dealing with text wrapping. Or you count try fmt with a very very large value for -w..... -- Matthew Miller mattdm@xxxxxxxxxx <http://www.mattdm.org/> Boston University Linux ------> <http://linux.bu.edu/>
