Re: Line Length Help

Re: Line Length Help

[Peter]

Peter said:
> Hi,
> If I safe with Lynx a text in html format to a file.txt the lines are
> at the most 60 col long.

> How can I change that to let say 90 col in order to get more text on
> one page for print-out?

> Would sed do the trick, but how?

> 

Since I did not get any answer I arrived with trial and error at the following 
to do the trick, almost:

tr -d '\012' < file.txt | groff -ms | lpr

This finally removes whatever is stubbornly holding the line length to 60 
characters and prints ca. 100 characters on one line. Except it also removes 
the empty lines between paragraphs.

Anyone there who knows how to solve this final obstacle?

 Thanks and regards

-- 
Peter

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Re: Line Length Help

[Jude DaShiell]

I think fmt and newfmt both have line length command line switches.




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Re: Line Length Help

[Peter]

Thank you so much Jude! This will safe me up to 1/3rd of my print paper.

jdashiel@shellworld.net said:
> I think fmt and newfmt both have line length command line switches. 

This brings to question how does one know what are all the goodies
hidden in the Linux box? By going thru all the Linux user commands in "Linux 
In A Nutshell" and with luck find the right command. May be O'Reilly should 
make an arrangement of the commands by function as well instead of only 
alphabetically.

Regards
-- 
Peter

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