Can't you just filter the text block through “par j1” ?

Greg

On Feb 26, 2013, at 17:25 , LuKreme <[email protected]> wrote:

> 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.
> 
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