I was aaaaaaalmost sold, until I tried it on a usenet post that was already wrapped incorrectly.. observe a snippet from comp.text.pdf: 
> 3. Scripting Languages, such as Python or Perl
> ===============================================
>
> ReportLab Toolkit (Python) and  PDF::API2 (Perl).
>
> 4. Lower-Level Programming languages such as C
> ===============================================
>
> Look at  PDFlib lite (simple version of the commercial one, not for
commercial
> use!) and ClibPDF. You will need a C compiler and some experienced C
programmers
> though.

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This will be reflowed to the specified width, using Text::Autoformat, but the broken lines aren't cuddled back up to their previous lines before reflowing the text. It looks like this:

 > 3. Scripting Languages, such as
 >    Python or Perl
 > ===============================================

 >
 > ReportLab Toolkit (Python) and
 > PDF::API2 (Perl).
 >
 > 4. Lower-Level Programming languages
 >    such as C
 > ===============================================

 >
 > Look at PDFlib lite (simple version
 > of the commercial one, not for
 commercial
 > use!) and ClibPDF. You will need a C
 > compiler and some experienced C
 programmers
 > though.

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The right-column is wrapped to the right width, but the text is still broken up. I wish there was a way to avoid this kind of behavior.

I also tried Text::Reform and Text::Reflow with similar (negative) results.

How are you handling cases like this in your code? You seem to be doing something similar to what I'm doing here also.

In reply to Re: Rewrapping Net::NNTP output by hacker
in thread Rewrapping Net::NNTP output by hacker

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