Confusing textwrap parameters, and request for RE help

[Chris Angelico]

On Fri, Mar 27, 2020 at 7:44 AM Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwards at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 2020-03-26, Richard Damon <Richard at Damon-Family.org> wrote:
>
> >> [...] nobody in their right mind would actually
> >> want to generate real output that way.
> >
> > Back in the day it was FREQUENTLY done, in part to show off, anyone
> > could type with a typewriter and get jagged right margins, but with a
> > computer you could get justified margins with uneven internal spacing!!
> > Status!
>
> It would have been better phrased "nobody _should_ actually want to".
>
> Sure, it was fun _producing_ output like that. But for anybody who had
> to read it, the novelty wore off pretty quickly. After few lines it
> was just annoying.  Most of us don't need any help making our writing
> even more annoying.
>

You know what's a lot more fun? Perfect block justification, no ragged
edges, no extra internal spaces. I'm not sure whether it's MORE
annoying or LESS than using internal spaces, but it's certainly a lot
more fun to write, since you have to compose on the fly.

And if even that becomes easy, try creating a column of just the
letter "e" in the middle of the paragraph.

ChrisA