https://github.com/gromnitsky/fmt-hyphen

A text formatter akin to fmt(1) but with hyphenation support
https://github.com/gromnitsky/fmt-hyphen

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A text formatter akin to fmt(1) but with hyphenation support

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/gromnitsky/fmt-hyphen
• Owner: gromnitsky
• Created: 2020-12-30T20:25:26.000Z (almost 4 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2024-07-16T21:57:25.000Z (4 months ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-11-01T12:04:08.383Z (18 days ago)
• Language: JavaScript
• Size: 735 KB
• Stars: 0
• Watchers: 3
• Forks: 0
• Open Issues: 0
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  • Readme: README.md

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# fmt-hyphen

A text formatter akin to [fmt(1)][] but with hyphenation support. Can

output images as well. Folds long words as a last resort only.

[fmt(1)]: https://manpages.debian.org/unstable/coreutils/fmt.1.en.html

    $ head -200 moby-dick.txt | fmt-hyphen -w30 --image 1.png

produces a long, narrow .png (this is a preview in

com.google.android.apps.photos):



Could be used to share hot takes on twitter w/o using twitter

"threads". Also, I had nothing to do in the last days of 2020.

## Installation

    $ npm i -g fmt-hyphen

Tested on node 15.5.0, f33.

## Usage

~~~

$ head -10 moby-dick.txt | ./fmt-hyphen -w30

MOBY-DICK; or, THE WHALE.

By Herman Melville

CHAPTER 1. Loomings.

Call me Ishmael. Some years

ago—never mind how long pre‐

cisely—having little or no

money in my purse, and nothing

particular to interest me on

shore, I thought I would sail

about a little and see the wa‐

tery part of the world. It is

a way I have of driving off

the spleen and

~~~

Print supported language patterns (`-l` option to select):

~~~

$ ./fmt-hyphen --lang-list | column

be              en-us           hy              nl              ta

bn              es              it              or              te

ca              fi              kn              pa              tr

cs              fr              la              pl              uk

da              grc             lt              pt

de              gu              lv              sk

el-monoton      hi              ml              sl

el-polyton      hu              nb-no           sv

~~~

## License

MIT