justify

Justifies each paragraph of the input text to fill the page width.

When a block of text is justified, each line fills the entire space from left to right. This is accomplished by adjusting the space between words and characters in each line so that the text fills 100% of the space. The result is a straight margin on each side of the page.

Each input line is considered a separate paragraph. Words longer than the width would be placed on their own lines.

Requirements:

• python >= 3.7

Installation

Just clone the repository with justify.py.

Usage

$ ./justify.py -h
usage: justify.py [-h] -w WIDTH [file]

Justifies each paragraph of the input text to fill the page width.

positional arguments:
  file                  input file (file name or - for stdin, defaults to stdin)

optional arguments:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  -w WIDTH, --width WIDTH
                        page width (greater than 0)

Example

$ ./justify.py -w 20 <<< \
> "This is a sample text but a complicated problem to be solved,\
> so we are adding more text to see that it actually works."
This  is  a   sample
text      but      a
complicated  problem
to be  solved,so  we
are adding more text
to   see   that   it
actually      works.

Test

1. Run pip install -r dev_requirements.txt to install dependencies
2. Run pytest