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Par is similar but superiour to the fmt(1) command included in the
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base system.
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Par is a filter that copies its input to its output, changing all
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white characters (except newlines) to spaces, and reformatting
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each paragraph. Paragraphs are separated by protected, blank, and
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bodiless lines (see the Terminology section for definitions), and
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optionally delimited by indentation (see the d option in the Options
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section).
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Each output paragraph is generated from the corresponding input
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paragraph as follows:
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1) An optional prefix and/or suffix is removed from each input line.
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2) The remainder is divided into words (separated by spaces).
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3) The words are joined into lines to make an eye-pleasing paragraph.
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4) The prefixes and suffixes are reattached.
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If there are suffixes, spaces are inserted before them so that they
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all end in the same column.
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WWW: http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~amc/Par/
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