1textutil::adjust(n)Text and string utilities, macro processintgextutil::adjust(n)
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8 textutil::adjust - Procedures to adjust, indent, and undent paragraphs
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11 package require Tcl 8.2
12 package require textutil::adjust ?0.7?
14 ::textutil::adjust::adjust string ?option value...?
16 ::textutil::adjust::readPatterns filename
18 ::textutil::adjust::listPredefined
20 ::textutil::adjust::getPredefined filename
22 ::textutil::adjust::indent string prefix ?skip?
24 ::textutil::adjust::undent string
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30 The package textutil::adjust provides commands that manipulate strings
31 or texts (a.k.a. long strings or string with embedded newlines or para‐
32 graphs), adjusting, or indenting them.
33 The complete set of procedures is described below.
35 ::textutil::adjust::adjust string ?option value...?
37 Do a justification on the string according to the options. The
38 string is taken as one big paragraph, ignoring any newlines.
39 Then the line is formatted according to the options used, and
40 the command returns a new string with enough lines to contain
41 all the printable chars in the input string. A line is a set of
42 characters between the beginning of the string and a newline, or
43 between 2 newlines, or between a newline and the end of the
44 string. If the input string is small enough, the returned string
45 won't contain any newlines.
46 Together with ::textutil::adjust::indent it is possible to cre‐
48 ate properly wrapped paragraphs with arbitrary indentations.
49 By default, any occurrence of space or tabulation characters are
51 replaced by a single space so that each word in a line is sepa‐
52 rated from the next one by exactly one space character, and this
53 forms a real line. Each real line is placed in a logical line,
54 which has exactly a given length (see the option -length below).
55 The real line may be shorter. Again by default, trailing spaces
56 are ignored before returning the string (see the option -full
57 below).
58 The following options may be used after the string parameter,
60 and change the way the command places a real line in a logical
61 line.
62 -full boolean
64 If set to false (default), trailing space characters are
65 deleted before returning the string. If set to true, any
66 trailing space characters are left in the string.
67 -hyphenate boolean
69 If set to false (default), no hyphenation will be done.
70 If set to true, the command will try to hyphenate the
71 last word of a line. Note: Hyphenation patterns must be
72 loaded prior, using the command ::textutil::adjust::read‐
73 Patterns.
74 -justify center|left|plain|right
76 Sets the justification of the returned string to either
77 left (default), center, plain or right. The justification
78 means that any line in the returned string but the last
79 one is build according to the value. If the justifica‐
80 tion is set to plain and the number of printable chars in
81 the last line is less than 90% of the length of a line
82 (see the option -length), then this line is justified
83 with the left value, avoiding the expansion of this line
84 when it is too small. The meaning of each value is:
85 center The real line is centered in the logical line. If
87 needed, a set of space characters are added at the
88 beginning (half of the needed set) and at the end
89 (half of the needed set) of the line if required
90 (see the option -full).
91 left The real line is set on the left of the logical
93 line. It means that there are no space chars at
94 the beginning of this line. If required, all
95 needed space chars are added at the end of the
96 line (see the option -full).
97 plain The real line is exactly set in the logical line.
99 It means that there are no leading or trailing
100 space chars. All the needed space chars are added
101 in the real line, between 2 (or more) words.
102 right The real line is set on the right of the logical
104 line. It means that there are no space chars at
105 the end of this line, and there may be some space
106 chars at the beginning, despite of the -full
107 option.
108 -length integer
110 Set the length of the logical line in the string to inte‐
111 ger. integer must be a positive integer value. Defaults
112 to 72.
113 -strictlength
115 boolean] If set to false (default), a line can exceed the
116 specified -length if a single word is longer than
117 -length. If set to true, words that are longer than
118 -length are split so that no line exceeds the specified
119 -length.
120 ::textutil::adjust::readPatterns filename
122 Loads the internal storage for hyphenation patterns with the
123 contents of the file filename. This has to be done prior to
124 calling command ::textutil::adjust::adjust with "-hyphenate
125 true", or the hyphenation process will not work correctly.
126 The package comes with a number of predefined pattern files, and
128 the command ::textutil::adjust::listPredefined can be used to
129 find out their names.
130 ::textutil::adjust::listPredefined
132 This command returns a list containing the names of the hyphen‐
133 ation files coming with this package.
134 ::textutil::adjust::getPredefined filename
136 Use this command to query the package for the full path name of
137 the hyphenation file filename coming with the package. Only the
138 filenames found in the list returned by ::textu‐
139 til::adjust::listPredefined are legal arguments for this com‐
140 mand.
141 ::textutil::adjust::indent string prefix ?skip?
143 Each line in the string is indented by adding the string prefix
144 at its beginning. The modified string is returned as the result
145 of the command.
146 If skip is specified the first skip lines are left untouched.
148 The default for skip is 0, causing the modification of all
149 lines. Negative values for skip are treated like 0. In other
150 words, skip > 0 creates a hanging indentation.
151 Together with ::textutil::adjust::adjust it is possible to cre‐
153 ate properly wrapped paragraphs with arbitrary indentations.
154 ::textutil::adjust::undent string
156 The command computes the common prefix for all lines in string
157 consisting solely out of whitespace, removes this from each line
158 and returns the modified string.
159 Lines containing only whitespace are always reduced to com‐
161 pletely empty lines. They and empty lines are also ignored when
162 computing the prefix to remove.
163 Together with ::textutil::adjust::adjust it is possible to cre‐
165 ate properly wrapped paragraphs with arbitrary indentations.
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168 This document, and the package it describes, will undoubtedly contain
169 bugs and other problems. Please report such in the category textutil
170 of the Tcllib SF Trackers [http://source‐
171 forge.net/tracker/?group_id=12883]. Please also report any ideas for
172 enhancements you may have for either package and/or documentation.
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175 regexp(n), split(n), string(n)
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178 TeX, adjusting, formatting, hyphenation, indenting, justification,
179 paragraph, string, undenting
180textutil 0.7 textutil::adjust(n)