Do not convert leading space characters to tabs on output; (output contains no tabs, even if there were tabs in input).
Center text on each line. Lines are pre- and post-processed, but no ®lling is performed.
Justify text. After ®lling, insert spaces in each line as needed to right justify it (except in the last line of each paragraph) while keeping the justi®ed left margin.
After ®lling text, adjust the indentation of each line for a smooth right margin (ragged left margin).
Set the right ®ll margin to the given column number, instead of 72. Text is ®lled, and optionally right justi®ed, so that no output line extends beyond this column (if possible). If -m0is given, the current right margin of the ®rst line of each paragraph is used for that and all subsequent lines in the paragraph.
By default, text is centered on column 40. With -c, the -moption sets the middle column of the centering ``window'', but -m0auto-sets the right side as before (which then deter- mines the center of the ``window'').

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adjust(1)

adjust(1)

NAME

adjust - simple text formatter

SYNOPSIS

adjust [-b][-c-j-r ] [-m column ] [-t tabsize ] [ ®les ... ]

DESCRIPTION

The adjust command is a simple text formatter for ®lling, centering, left and right justifying, or only right justifying text paragraphs, and is designed for interactive use. It reads the concatenation of input ®les (or standard input if none are given) and produces on standard output a formatted version of its input, with each paragraph formatted separately. If - is given as an input ®lename, adjust reads standard input at that point (use - - as an argument to separate - from options.)

adjust reads text from input lines as a series of words separated by space characters, tabs, or newlines. Text lines are grouped into paragraphs separated by blank lines. By default, text is copied directly to the output, subject only to simple ®lling (see below) with a right margin of 72, and leading spaces are converted to tabs where possible.

Options

The adjust command recognizes the following command-line options:

-b

-c -j

-r

-mcolumn

-ttabsizeSet the tab size to other than the default (eight columns).

Only one of the -c, -j, and -roptions is allowed in a single command line.

Details

Before doing anything else to a line of input text, adjust ®rst handles backspaces, rubbing out preceding characters in the usual way. Next, it ignores all non-printable characters except tab. It then expands all tabs to spaces.

For simple text ®lling, the ®rst word of the ®rst line of each paragraph is indented the same amount as in the input line. Each word is then carried to the output followed by one space. ``Words'' ending in terminal_character[quote][closing_character] are followed by two spaces, where terminal_character is any of ., :, ?, or !; quote is a single closing quote ( ' ) character or double-quote character ( " ), and close is any of ), ], or }. Here are some examples:

end. of? sentence.' sorts!" of.) words?"]

(adjust does not place two spaces after a pair of single closing quotes ( '' ) following a terminal_character).

adjust starts a new output line whenever adding a word (other than the ®rst one) to the current line would exceed the right margin.

adjust understands indented ®rst lines of paragraphs (such as this one) when ®lling. The second and subsequent lines of each paragraph are indented the same amount as the second line of the input paragraph if there is a second line, else the same as the ®rst line.

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