On 28 Feb 2013, at 11:41 AM, Lawrence San <[email protected]> wrote:
> I'm still curious why Terminal uses justified type for man pages, and why
> somebody would want justified type in a plain-text file.
It's not Terminal, it's the man command, which has worked that way since the
'70s. The text-filtering tool roff/nroff/groff, that takes man-page specs and
converts them to formats like PostScript and plain text, tries to put out as
consistent a presentation as it can. The PostScript output is justified, so the
plain-text output is, too.
It doesn't matter why someone would want justified plain-text blocks. People
do, and they have reasons that are good enough for them, even if we can't guess
them. There are readability tradeoffs, but those are tradeoffs, and different
people make different choices.
I'm not saying BBEdit has to support it, but it's not an unreasonable request.
The demand has gone down, but even a little demand is worth considering.
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