--- On Fri, 18/11/11, Girish Venkatachalam <girishvenkatachalam at gmail.com>
wrote:
From: Girish Venkatachalam <girishvenkatachalam at gmail.com>
Subject: [Ilugc] question about text formatting
To: "Indian Linux User Group Chennai" <ilugc at ae.iitm.ac.in>
Date: Friday, 18 November, 2011, 3:46 PM
I have a need.
All of you would have seen newspaper print and PDF
documents in which
two columns of text are displayed.
The first column will be half the page, there will be a
vertical line
or a just a space and the next column will be
alongside.
So people read the text from the left column and once they
are done
they switch over to the right column.
I hope you get what I mean.
Now I want to do this with plain text. How to do that?
I know that fmt can format the text to wrap around at 36
instead of
standard 72 chars.
After that how to "paste" text into the right side?
Any ideas?