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authorTim Vanderhoek <hoek@FreeBSD.org>1999-07-17 13:55:49 +0000
committerTim Vanderhoek <hoek@FreeBSD.org>1999-07-17 13:55:49 +0000
commit824fcf67c9e9461fe0a2bcf63935b2a2790203d7 (patch)
tree6a1905f206482ef024edf0294ee63ffa9eda77da
parentActivate gogo (diff)
Add WWW:. Reference fmt(1). Minor reformatting to keep this within 24 lines.
Notes
Notes: svn path=/head/; revision=20240
-rw-r--r--textproc/par/pkg-descr13
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/textproc/par/pkg-descr b/textproc/par/pkg-descr
index 98b0e2236d5f..9c63d4996b3a 100644
--- a/textproc/par/pkg-descr
+++ b/textproc/par/pkg-descr
@@ -1,4 +1,7 @@
- Par is a filter which copies its input to its output, changing all
+ Par is similar but superiour to the fmt(1) command included in the
+ base system.
+
+ Par is a filter that copies its input to its output, changing all
white characters (except newlines) to spaces, and reformatting
each paragraph. Paragraphs are separated by protected, blank, and
bodiless lines (see the Terminology section for definitions), and
@@ -8,12 +11,12 @@
Each output paragraph is generated from the corresponding input
paragraph as follows:
- 1) An optional prefix and/or suffix is removed from each input
- line.
+ 1) An optional prefix and/or suffix is removed from each input line.
2) The remainder is divided into words (separated by spaces).
- 3) The words are joined into lines to make an eye-pleasing
- paragraph.
+ 3) The words are joined into lines to make an eye-pleasing paragraph.
4) The prefixes and suffixes are reattached.
If there are suffixes, spaces are inserted before them so that they
all end in the same column.
+
+WWW: http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~amc/Par/