NAME¶
textutil::adjust - Procedures to adjust, indent, and undent paragraphs
SYNOPSIS¶
package require
Tcl 8.2
package require
textutil::adjust ?0.7.1?
::textutil::adjust::adjust string ?
option value...?
::textutil::adjust::readPatterns filename
::textutil::adjust::listPredefined
::textutil::adjust::getPredefined filename
::textutil::adjust::indent string prefix ?
skip?
::textutil::adjust::undent string
DESCRIPTION¶
The package
textutil::adjust provides commands that manipulate strings or
texts (a.k.a. long strings or string with embedded newlines or paragraphs),
adjusting, or indenting them.
The complete set of procedures is described below.
- ::textutil::adjust::adjust string ?option
value...?
- Do a justification on the string according to the options. The
string is taken as one big paragraph, ignoring any newlines. Then the line
is formatted according to the options used, and the command returns a new
string with enough lines to contain all the printable chars in the input
string. A line is a set of characters between the beginning of the string
and a newline, or between 2 newlines, or between a newline and the end of
the string. If the input string is small enough, the returned string won't
contain any newlines.
Together with ::textutil::adjust::indent it is possible to create
properly wrapped paragraphs with arbitrary indentations.
By default, any occurrence of space or tabulation characters are replaced by
a single space so that each word in a line is separated from the next one
by exactly one space character, and this forms a real line. Each
real line is placed in a logical line, which has exactly a
given length (see the option -length below). The real line
may be shorter. Again by default, trailing spaces are ignored before
returning the string (see the option -full below).
The following options may be used after the string parameter, and
change the way the command places a real line in a logical
line.
- -full boolean
- If set to false (default), trailing space characters are deleted
before returning the string. If set to true, any trailing space
characters are left in the string.
- -hyphenate boolean
- If set to false (default), no hyphenation will be done. If set to
true, the command will try to hyphenate the last word of a line.
Note: Hyphenation patterns must be loaded prior, using the command
::textutil::adjust::readPatterns.
- -justify center|left|plain|right
- Sets the justification of the returned string to either left
(default), center, plain or right. The justification
means that any line in the returned string but the last one is build
according to the value. If the justification is set to plain and
the number of printable chars in the last line is less than 90% of the
length of a line (see the option -length), then this line is
justified with the left value, avoiding the expansion of this line
when it is too small. The meaning of each value is:
- center
- The real line is centered in the logical line. If needed, a set of space
characters are added at the beginning (half of the needed set) and at the
end (half of the needed set) of the line if required (see the option
-full).
- left
- The real line is set on the left of the logical line. It means that there
are no space chars at the beginning of this line. If required, all needed
space chars are added at the end of the line (see the option
-full).
- plain
- The real line is exactly set in the logical line. It means that there are
no leading or trailing space chars. All the needed space chars are added
in the real line, between 2 (or more) words.
- right
- The real line is set on the right of the logical line. It means that there
are no space chars at the end of this line, and there may be some space
chars at the beginning, despite of the -full option.
- -length integer
- Set the length of the logical line in the string to integer.
integer must be a positive integer value. Defaults to
72.
- -strictlength
- boolean] If set to false (default), a line can exceed the
specified -length if a single word is longer than -length.
If set to true, words that are longer than -length are split
so that no line exceeds the specified -length.
- ::textutil::adjust::readPatterns filename
- Loads the internal storage for hyphenation patterns with the contents of
the file filename. This has to be done prior to calling command
::textutil::adjust::adjust with " -hyphenate
true", or the hyphenation process will not work correctly.
The package comes with a number of predefined pattern files, and the command
::textutil::adjust::listPredefined can be used to find out their
names.
- ::textutil::adjust::listPredefined
- This command returns a list containing the names of the hyphenation files
coming with this package.
- ::textutil::adjust::getPredefined filename
- Use this command to query the package for the full path name of the
hyphenation file filename coming with the package. Only the
filenames found in the list returned by
::textutil::adjust::listPredefined are legal arguments for this
command.
- ::textutil::adjust::indent string prefix
?skip?
- Each line in the string is indented by adding the string
prefix at its beginning. The modified string is returned as the
result of the command.
If skip is specified the first skip lines are left untouched.
The default for skip is 0, causing the modification of all
lines. Negative values for skip are treated like 0. In other
words, skip > 0 creates a hanging indentation.
Together with ::textutil::adjust::adjust it is possible to create
properly wrapped paragraphs with arbitrary indentations.
- ::textutil::adjust::undent string
- The command computes the common prefix for all lines in string
consisting solely out of whitespace, removes this from each line and
returns the modified string.
Lines containing only whitespace are always reduced to completely empty
lines. They and empty lines are also ignored when computing the prefix to
remove.
Together with ::textutil::adjust::adjust it is possible to create
properly wrapped paragraphs with arbitrary indentations.
BUGS, IDEAS, FEEDBACK¶
This document, and the package it describes, will undoubtedly contain bugs and
other problems. Please report such in the category
textutil of the
Tcllib Trackers [
http://core.tcl.tk/tcllib/reportlist]. Please also
report any ideas for enhancements you may have for either package and/or
documentation.
SEE ALSO¶
regexp(3tcl), split(3tcl), string(3tcl)
KEYWORDS¶
TeX, adjusting, formatting, hyphenation, indenting, justification, paragraph,
string, undenting
CATEGORY¶
Text processing