Tim here. You could try running it through the "fmt" utility to reformat paragraphs, assuming each paragraph has a blank line between it. To reformat it to 80-columns wide, you could do $ fmt -80 < short_lines.txt > nice_and_wide.txt My version here has a maximum allowed width of 2500 apparently, in case you want to try and make them as long as possible. If that doesn't do what you want, you'd have to provide a sample excerpt of the file (or redacted text in a similar format, especially when it comes to line-breaks and paragraph breaks) to test against. But hopefully that above invocation solves it for you -tim On July 7, 2017, Linux for blind general discussion wrote: > Hi All, > We have both editors here at shellworld. Here is the situation. > using pdftotext I converted a large file. the resulting text > though has very very short lines with hrt, return keys at the end > of them. As if the file was intended to be read in a very small > space. I repaired a file like this once, but cannot remember how. > Any tips? _______________________________________________ Blinux-list mailing list Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list