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1 .TH FMT 1
2 .SH NAME
3 fmt, htmlfmt \- simple text formatters
4 .SH SYNOPSIS
5 .B fmt
6 [
7 .I option ...
8 ]
9 [
10 .I file ...
11 ]
12 .PP
13 .B htmlfmt
14 [
15 .B -a
16 ] [
17 .B -c
18 .I charset
19 ] [
20 .B -u
21 .I url
22 ] [
23 .I file ...
24 ]
25 .SH DESCRIPTION
26 .I Fmt
27 copies the given
28 .I files
29 (standard input by default)
30 to its standard output, filling and indenting lines.
31 The options are
32 .TP
33 .BI -l " n
34 Output line length is
35 .IR n ,
36 including indent (default 70).
37 .TP
38 .BI -w " n
39 A synonym for
40 .BR -l .
41 .TP
42 .BI -i " n
43 Indent
44 .I n
45 spaces (default 0).
46 .TP
47 .BI -j
48 Do not join short lines: only fold long lines.
49 .PP
50 Empty lines and initial white space in input lines are preserved.
51 Empty lines are inserted between input files.
52 .PP
53 .I Fmt
54 is idempotent: it leaves already formatted text unchanged.
55 .PP
56 .I Htmlfmt
57 performs a similar service, but accepts as input text formatted with
58 HTML tags.
59 It accepts
60 .IR fmt 's
61 .B -l
62 and
63 .B -w
64 flags and also:
65 .TP
66 .BI -a
67 Normally
68 .I htmlfmt
69 suppresses the contents of form fields and anchors (URLs and image files…
70 causes it to print them, in square brackets.
71 .TP
72 .BI -c " charset
73 change the default character set from iso-8859-1 to
74 .IR charset .
75 This is the character set assumed if there isn't one
76 specified by the html itself in a <meta> directive.
77 .TP
78 .BI -u " url
79 Use
80 .I url
81 as the base URL for the document when displaying anchors; sets
82 .BI -a .
83 .SH SOURCE
84 .B \*9/src/cmd/fmt.c
85 .PP
86 .B \*9/src/cmd/htmlfmt
87 .SH BUGS
88 .I Htmlfmt
89 makes no attempt to render the two-dimensional geometry of tables;
90 it just treats the table entries as plain, to-be-formatted text.
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