.TH FMT 1
.SH NAME
fmt, htmlfmt \- simple text formatters
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B fmt
[
.I option ...
]
[
.I file ...
]
.PP
.B htmlfmt
[
.B -a
] [
.B -u
.I url
] [
.I file ...
]
.SH DESCRIPTION
.I Fmt
copies the given
.I files
(standard input by default)
to its standard output, filling and indenting lines.
The options are
.TP
.BI -l " n
Output line length is
.IR n ,
including indent (default 70).
.TP
.BI -w " n
A synonym for
.BR -l .
.TP
.BI -i " n
Indent
.I n
spaces (default 0).
.TP
.BI -j
Don't join input lines, simply split them where necessary.
.PP
Empty lines and initial white space in input lines are preserved.
Empty lines are inserted between input files.
.PP
.I Fmt
is idempotent: it leaves already formatted text unchanged.
.PP
.I Htmlfmt
performs a similar service, but accepts as input text formatted with
HTML tags.
It accepts
.IR fmt 's
.B -l
and
.B -w
flags and also:
.TP
.BI -a
Normally
.I htmlfmt
suppresses the contents of form fields and anchors (URLs and image files); this flag
causes it to print them, in square brackets.
.TP
.BI -u " url
Use
.I url
as the base URL for the document when displaying anchors; sets
.BI -a .
.SH SOURCE
.B /sys/src/cmd/fmt.c
.SH BUGS
.I Htmlfmt
makes no attempt to render the two-dimensional geometry of tables;
it just treats the table entries as plain, to-be-formatted text.