Whilst reading my Kindle on a plane, I wondered how the text justification was done. I decided to implement my guess at a definition.
- Place desired input text in
input.txt - Edit settings in
settings.pyas needed - Run
python3 text_justifier.py - View output in
output.txt
In an attempt to do this without existing work, I have no idea what the actual definition of justified text is. But the following rules were adhered to:
- Each line (except the last) will have the following
- A character in the leftmost column
- A character in the rightmost (
LINE_WIDTH) column - Spaces distributed as evenly as possible to fill the width to the
LINE_WIDTHsetting- Current implementation starts from the rightmost column and drops one space after each existing space until it reaches the leftmost column, at which point it wraps around and repeats
- The last line will have its text left as is
- Each word in the output will be separated by the
SPACEparameter insettings.py - Newlines and tabs will be stripped upon reading the input