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Landon Curt Noll 4ee4c731f7 convert markdown copyright TAB chars into SPACE chars
While not strictly necessary, replacing the two ASCII tab characters
in the markdown copyright comment makes it easier to detect problematic
TAB indentation within markdown files.

After this commit, only 90 markdown files have leading ASCII TAB
characters.  And again, while not strictly necessary, we can consider
running expand on those 90 markdown files to see what effect that
might have on the HTML files they produce.

Replace leading ASCII TAB characters with multiples of 8 ASCII SPACE
characters (the default action of the `expand(1)` tool) might have
an negative effect on some HTML formatting where **hack-a-round**
formatting was attempted to fix broken indentation caused by
problematic ASCII TAB characters.

Think of this as a baseline for evaluating leading
TAB characters within markdown files.

TODO: Consider either using `expand(1)` to replace leading ASCII
TAB characters with multiples of 8 ASCII SPACE characters AND/OR
modifying the appropriate `bin` tool to convert leading ASCII TAB
characters into multiples of 8 ASCII SPACE characters.
2024-06-22 22:15:25 -07:00

1.2 KiB

To build:

    make all

On System V systems, we had to compile with -Dindex=strchr. To compile on a 16 bit machine, change 300000 to 30000.

To use:

    ./heckbert col < file

where col is the number of columns to fold at and file is the file to fold.

Try:

    ./try.sh

Judges' remarks:

Folding at the wrong length may be equivalent to a "Spindle or Mutilate" operation. For example:

    ./heckbert 40 < heckbert.c > ph.c ; make ph ; ./ph 20 < heckbert.c > bar.c ; make bar

Try not to Fold, Spindle or Mutilate files. :-)

The judges used this program to fold up very long lines which the BSD fold(1) was unable to process. This program has been added to the contest tool chest.

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