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Python Equivalent to Text::Autoformat

BartlebyScrivener rpdooling at gmail.com
Sun Dec 4 08:58:08 EST 2005 
>>try searching on text wrapping<<

I tried that before I posted. Text::Autoformat does a lot more than
textwrap.

"The fundamental task of the autoformat subroutine is to identify and
rearrange independent paragraphs in a text. Paragraphs typically
consist of a series of lines containing at least one non-whitespace
character, followed by one or more lines containing only optional
whitespace. This is a more liberal definition than many other
formatters use: most require an empty line to terminate a paragraph.
Paragraphs may also be denoted by bulleting, numbering, or quoting . .
."

Once a paragraph has been isolated, autoformat fills and re-wraps its
lines according to the margins that are specified in its argument list.
These are placed after the text to be formatted, in a hash reference:"

It's also sensitive to comment characters in code and so on.

But I'll keep looking. Thank you. 

bs
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