Text formating

[Steven J. Brown]

\no.

(Sorry, couldn't resist).

Bill Gradwohl wrote:

>I'm looking for a utility that will change:
>
>	Mary had a\n
>	little\n
>	lamb, it's fleece was white\n
>	as snow.\n
>
>To:
>
>	Mary has a little lamb, it's fleece was white as snow.
>
>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 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?
>
>Thank You
>
>  
>


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Steven J. Brown
Business A*nalyst / Programmer
Value Line, Inc.
NY: 212-907-1650
NJ: 201-842-8019
sbrown at valueline.com
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