On Mon, 2018-03-19 at 15:39 +0000, Jeffrey Walton noloader@xxxxxxxxx
wrote:
> Hi Everyone,
>
> We run our book source through xmllint before making the book and
> checking in sources to version control.
>
> We would like to format the sources so paragraphs have a break at 80
> or 90 chracters.
I'd suggest using XSLT, with xsltproc.
http://users.atw.hu/xsltcookbook2/xsltckbk2-chp-7-sect-6.html
may do what you want, wth some modification.
The --format option to xmllint doesn't reflow text.
Liam
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