Re: [groff] groff as the basis for comprehensive documentation?

[Ralph Corderoy]

Hi John,

> Does anybody else here manage to line-wrap their commit messages at
> *precisely* 72-characters without the aide of hyphenation or justification?
> ;-) Or is it just me?

I find myself sometimes breaking a line after a comma or full stop,
without starting a new paragraph, if the line is still a good length.
Rather than vim's `gwap', or fmt(1), say.

It's convenient for later edits being isolated in their ripple effect.
I think Bell Labs book authors often did this when using ed(1) as the
edits were line based and the edit often wanted to work on a clause.
Does anyone here know a fmt(1)-er that tries to do this?

fmt(1) alternatives I know are

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Par_(command)
    http://search.cpan.org/~neilb/Text-Autoformat-1.74/lib/Text/Autoformat.pm

The latter can easily be run from the command line,
not just used as a module in Perl.

-- 
Cheers, Ralph.
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