In our previous episode (Tuesday, 26-Feb-2013), John Delacour said: > On 26/02/2013 23:29, Cerebus wrote: >> Sometimes, though not very often, I want to justify plain text. When I want >> to do this, I use vim since as far as I know there isn't a way to do it in >> BBedit. > > BBEdit is a text editor and to talk of "justifying plain text" is a > contradiction in terms. There is no way to do true justification in any > plain text editor. If you use a monospaced font then sure you can add spaces > arbitrarily to space things out, but that is not proper justification, which > relies on kerning and other rules not available in any text editor.
Yes, but I thought I was quite clear. I can do this in vim and end up with a block of text that has spaces added in to space out the letters and yield a 'justified' looking block of text that is still monospaced, but does not have a ragged right margin. Just exactly like in the above paragraph. -- I have as much authority as the Pope, I just don't have as many people who believe it. -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "BBEdit Talk" discussion group on Google Groups. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at <http://groups.google.com/group/bbedit?hl=en> If you have a feature request or would like to report a problem, please email "[email protected]" rather than posting to the group. Follow @bbedit on Twitter: <http://www.twitter.com/bbedit> --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BBEdit Talk" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
