[TriLUG] word wrap tool

[Mike Mueller]

On Saturday 20 July 2002 13:14, Nathan Conrad reputedly wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 20, 2002 at 12:53:59PM -0400, Mike Mueller wrote:
> > I dumped a Word document to txt in StarOffice.  There's no word wrapping
> > that I can find.
> >
> > A. Can someone point out the word wrap feature in SO 5.1?
> > B. Can someone recommend a tool (wrap-1.0.0 at ibiblo is a brute force
> > wrapper; it does not know about breaking at whitespace or hyphenating)
>
> The standard UNIX utility `fold' will wrap text documents for you. It
> does not know about hyphenating, but can be configured to only wrap at
> whitespace. Use it like so:
>
> fold -s < unwrapped.txt > wrapped.txt
>
> The -s makes it wrap at spaces.
>
> -Nathan

Thanks.  I knew there had to be something like that.

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