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# fmt - format
# input: text
# output: text formatted into lines of <= 72 characters
BEGIN {
maxlen = 72
}
/^[ \t]/ { printline(); print; next } # verbatim
###/^ +/ { printline(); } # whitespace == break
/./ { for (i = 1; i <= NF; i++) addword($i); next }
/^$/ { printline(); print "" }
END { printline() }
function addword(w) {
## print "adding [", w, "] ", length(w), length(line), maxlen
if (length(line) + length(w) > maxlen)
printline()
if (length(w) > 2 && ( w ~ /[\.!]["?)]?$/ || w ~ /[?!]"?$/) &&
w !~ /^(Mr|Dr|Ms|Mrs|vs|Ph.D)\.$/)
w = w " "
line = line " " w
}
function printline() {
if (length(line) > 0) {
sub(/ +$/, "", line)
print substr(line, 2) # removes leading blank
line = ""
}
}