--- On Fri, 18/11/11, Girish Venkatachalam <[email protected]> wrote:
> From: Girish Venkatachalam <[email protected]> > Subject: [Ilugc] question about text formatting > To: "Indian Linux User Group Chennai" <[email protected]> > Date: Friday, 18 November, 2011, 3:46 PM > I have a need. > > All of you would have seen newspaper print and PDF > documents in which > two columns of text are displayed. > > The first column will be half the page, there will be a > vertical line > or a just a space and the next column will be > alongside. > > So people read the text from the left column and once they > are done > they switch over to the right column. > > I hope you get what I mean. > > Now I want to do this with plain text. How to do that? > > I know that fmt can format the text to wrap around at 36 > instead of > standard 72 chars. > > After that how to "paste" text into the right side? > > Any ideas? > pr will do it much better pr --columns=2 myfile You can even merge multiple files using -m Look at man pr Raman.P blog:http://ramanchennai.wordpress.com/ _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
