70 columns

Is anyone  writing  their Gopher files in vi (or similar  text editor)
and  then  using some other command-line  utility  to  pipe  the  file
through   in order to keep everything  at 70 columns  (N columns)   or
below?   If so, could  you please drop me a line  and let me know  how
you are doing this?

d1337 [at] sdf.org

EDIT 1:  sdf user screwtape  quickly  responded  to tell me about  the
"justify" tool, which can be downloaded here:

https://tildegit.org/jns/justify

I downloaded it to my sdf shell and easily compiled it using gmake.

Justifying the output of a Gopher file to 70 columns is as easy as:

cat gopher_file.txt | ./justify -w 70

NOTE:   "justify"  will leave off a non-blank  line at the end of your
file if it does not itself end with a CR/LF.

ALSO NOTE: "justify"  makes a distinction  between "columns"  (-c) and
"characters"   (-w).   In my case it was 70 "characters"   that I  was
after.

EDIT 2: For all you EMACS hackers  out there, sdf user kimek responded
to tell me about how he accomplishes this in his editor of choice:

"I use EMACS  to set my widths.  Alt+x f opens a column prompt which I
personally   set  to 69.  It is then a matter   of  highlighting   the
document and hitting Alt+q.  Alt+q on a single line or paragraph  also
works with no highlighting necessary."

[This Gopher article written in vi and justified  to 70 columns  using
the "justify" utility]

CREATED 2023-04-04

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