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 TextShaper
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-package to shape text blocks 
+/text manipulation: a package to shape text blocks/
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+So you have a block of text ...
+What do you want to do with it?!?
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+== Desired Functionality ==
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+- onelineit
+- quoting
+- dequoting (including e.g. +/-, diff-ish shit)
+- remove whitespace
+- removing timestamps
+- removing/adding irc quote tags
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+== Previous work ==
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+/corpus of past programs -> consolidate/
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+Interface:
+- library code
+- (n)curses
+- javascript/REST
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+Consider the pattern:
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+* things that add and/or remove a thing
+* things that alter spacing
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+== Reference ==
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+Previous k0s.ware (big and small):
+- http://k0s.org/hg/config/rev/5e0b4ec36013
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+Highly related (~> identity): http://k0s.org/portfolio/ideas/cleanuptext.py
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+Ubuntu packages:
+- par (paragraph reformatter)
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