Confusing textwrap parameters, and request for RE help

Chris Angelico rosuav at gmail.com
Fri Mar 27 16:59:54 EDT 2020


On Sat, Mar 28, 2020 at 7:24 AM Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwards at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 2020-03-26, Chris Angelico <rosuav at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > You know what's a lot more fun? Perfect block justification, no ragged
> > edges, no extra internal spaces. I'm not sure whether it's MORE
> > annoying or LESS than using internal spaces, but it's certainly a lot
> > more fun to write, since you have to compose on the fly.
>
> I was about to mention that.  I've seen paragraphs written that way
> and marvelled that the language still seemed natural. I've never tried
> to do it myself.
>

It's a linguistic exercise - kinda like fitting your thoughts into a
poetic structure. It helps if you know a *lot* of synonyms for things
:)

ChrisA


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