On Thu, Aug 24, 2006 at 02:59:20PM +0200, Kyrre Nyg?rd wrote:
> Hello people,
> 
> I'm looking for the best ways to create a line of code beautification 
> (reformatting) scripts -- one for C, one for Ruby, one for Bash and 
> one for web development languages like XHTML, XML, CSS, PHP and Ajax. 
> Whether as frontline warriors or household maids, they would ensure 
> proper indentation, linebreaks, spaces, tabs and so forth.

You might look at Donald Knuth's famous paper, "Breaking Paragraphs into
Lines," for a flexible approach to laying out text based on "boxes" and
"glue".  ISTR he uses the layout of Pascal programs as one example.

Dave

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