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Text justification
First of all i wanna say that i m grateful for that amazing program. I love doing as much as possible in terminal. But is it possible to justify text? Is there any way to this? Thx in advance, keep up the good job!
Hello there, thanks, mate.
That's good question! Actually I've been considering text justification for so long. And I kinda thought it can be easily implemented using amazing https://github.com/willmcgugan/rich library. But the difficult part is adjusting search feature with justified text, although it is still manageable, I currently don't think it's worth the effort. Because what rich currently do is forcing the justification by stretching the space irregularly like this:
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit.
Aenean venenatis a lectus in suscipit. Proin non felis pulvinar,
tristique sapien id, viverra ipsum. Donec nec dictum nisl,
id faucibus nulla.
What I actually want is text justification like this (look at the space and hyphen), like kindle does:
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing el-
it. Aenean venenatis a lectus in suscipit. Proin nonse
felis pulvinar, tristique sapien id, viverra ipsum. D-
onec nec dictum nisl, id faucibus nulla.
With current rich library justification by stretching the spaces will create irregularity/inconsistency which will tire the reader's eyes for long reads. So, I don't think this will be implemented in short time, sorry. But, like you, I also would love this text justification.
