Re: Paragraph Re-Formating in vi

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From: James M. Moore
Date: Thu, 04 Aug 1988 15:29

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In article <3003@ttidca.TTI.COM> kevin@ttidcb.tti.com (Kevin Carothers) writes:
>Huh?
>I thought we had this discussion months ago. Anyway, I don't like
>this  method  because  it  leaves "ragged" right-hand margins. It
>looks a lot better if you put a ".pl 1" command  at  the  top  of
>your  paragraph, position  your  cursor to the ".", and enter the
>command "!}nroff". This  gives  "justified"  right-hand  margins,
>like in this posting.

Why do you like full justification?  If you have adequate typesetting
equipment, then it's fine.  On a terminal, it's just irritating.  The
spaces are far to irregular to make it comfortable to read, and the
center portion of the text looks sloppy.

-- 
James Moore
jamesm@sco.com
Nil clu no suim ar bith ag SCO ceard a bhfuil me ag scriobh anois.

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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!attcan!uunet!sco!jamesm
From: jamesm@sco.COM (James M. Moore)
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Subject: Re: Paragraph Re-Formating in vi
Keywords: vi, paragraph, reformating
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Date: 4 Aug 88 15:29:42 GMT
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