Date: Saturday, May 27, 1995
From: Todd@nohost.com [Todd Eckrich]
  Re: Machine Code Text Formatter

--> S/SX/G/GX

STR22 - for ordinary editing on HP48
STR24 - for printing to HP 82240 Thermal Printer
STR33 - for Jazz (ED & VV)
STR80 - for printing to normal full-page printer

Author:  Todd Eckrich  ( mte@delphi.com )
Subject: ALIGN, version 1.0
         ( Text Formatter for HP48 S/G Series )
BYTES:   # 2D4Ah 111
 
   This small program formats text to fit within the 22-character
wide display. The way it does it, however, is different than other
similar programs. A machine code routine simply rearranges the space
and linefeed characters in two passes. The first pass simply replaces
all linefeeds with spaces. The second pass puts a linefeed at the
first space encountered backwards from the 23rd character of each
line. As a result, words do not get haphazardly split and the program
is extremely fast. If there are more than 22 consecutive nonspaces,
then the 23rd character is replaced with a linefeed. The argument
is a character string. If anyone is interested, I wrote a similar
program to format text for use with JAZZ's ED and VV. It does not
work for formatting source code. It is intended more for text,
especially editing large text files.

[Note: See ED33 and VV33 for formatted editing and viewing in the Jazz
33-char font.  What we *really* need is a program that takes two
arguments, a string and a desired line width, then uses Todd's method
to format the string to that width.  -jkh-]