--- /dev/null	Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
+++ b/textshaper/onelineit.py	Mon Aug 25 19:22:37 2014 -0700
@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python
+
+def onelineit(string):
+    string = string.split('\n')
+    string = [ i.strip() or '\n' for i in string ]
+    string = ' '.join(string)
+    string = string.split('\n')
+    string = [ i.strip() for i in string if i.strip() ]
+
+    return '\n\n'.join(string)
+
+if __name__ == '__main__':
+    import sys    
+    print onelineit(sys.stdin.read())