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Textwrap
Textwrap is a small Rust crate for word wrapping text. You can use it to format strings for display in commandline applications. The crate name and interface is inspired by the Python textwrap module.
Usage
Add this to your Cargo.toml
:
[dependencies]
textwrap = "0.11"
and this to your crate root:
extern crate textwrap;
If you would like to have automatic hyphenation, specify the dependency as:
[dependencies]
textwrap = { version = "0.11", features = ["hyphenation"] }
To conveniently wrap text at the current terminal width, enable the
term_size
feature:
[dependencies]
textwrap = { version = "0.11", features = ["term_size"] }
Documentation
Getting Started
Word wrapping single strings is easy using the fill
function:
extern crate textwrap;
use textwrap::fill;
fn main() {
let text = "textwrap: a small library for wrapping text.";
println!("{}", fill(text, 18));
}
The output is
textwrap: a small
library for
wrapping text.
With the hyphenation
feature, you can get automatic hyphenation
for about 70 languages. Your program must load and
configure the hyphenation patterns to use:
extern crate hyphenation;
extern crate textwrap;
use hyphenation::{Language, Load, Standard};
use textwrap::Wrapper;
fn main() {
let hyphenator = Standard::from_embedded(Language::EnglishUS).unwrap();
let wrapper = Wrapper::with_splitter(18, hyphenator);
let text = "textwrap: a small library for wrapping text.";
println!("{}", wrapper.fill(text))
}
The output now looks like this:
textwrap: a small
library for wrap-
ping text.
The hyphenation uses high-quality TeX hyphenation patterns.
Examples
The library comes with some small example programs that shows various features.
Layout Example
The layout
example shows how a fixed example string is wrapped at
different widths. Run the example with:
$ cargo run --features hyphenation --example layout
The program will use the following string:
Memory safety without garbage collection. Concurrency without data races. Zero-cost abstractions.
The string is wrapped at all widths between 15 and 60 columns. With narrow columns the output looks like this:
.--- Width: 15 ---.
| Memory safety |
| without garbage |
| collection. |
| Concurrency |
| without data |
| races. Zero- |
| cost abstrac- |
| tions. |
.--- Width: 16 ----.
| Memory safety |
| without garbage |
| collection. Con- |
| currency without |
| data races. Ze- |
| ro-cost abstrac- |
| tions. |
Later, longer lines are used and the output now looks like this:
.-------------------- Width: 49 --------------------.
| Memory safety without garbage collection. Concur- |
| rency without data races. Zero-cost abstractions. |
.---------------------- Width: 53 ----------------------.
| Memory safety without garbage collection. Concurrency |
| without data races. Zero-cost abstractions. |
.------------------------- Width: 59 -------------------------.
| Memory safety without garbage collection. Concurrency with- |
| out data races. Zero-cost abstractions. |
Notice how words are split at hyphens (such as "zero-cost") but also how words are hyphenated using automatic/machine hyphenation.
Terminal Width Example
The termwidth
example simply shows how the width can be set
automatically to the current terminal width. Run it with this command:
$ cargo run --example termwidth
If you run it in a narrow terminal, you'll see output like this:
Formatted in within 60 columns:
----
Memory safety without garbage collection. Concurrency
without data races. Zero-cost abstractions.
----
If stdout
is not connected to the terminal, the program will use a
default of 80 columns for the width:
$ cargo run --example termwidth | cat
Formatted in within 80 columns:
----
Memory safety without garbage collection. Concurrency without data races. Zero-
cost abstractions.
----
Release History
This section lists the largest changes per release.
Version 0.11.0 — December 9th, 2018
Due to our dependencies bumping their minimum supported version of Rust, the minimum version of Rust we test against is now 1.22.0.
- Merged #141: Fix
dedent
handling of empty lines and trailing newlines. Thanks @bbqsrc! - Fixed #151: Release of version with hyphenation 0.7.
Version 0.10.0 — April 28th, 2018
Due to our dependencies bumping their minimum supported version of Rust, the minimum version of Rust we test against is now 1.17.0.
- Fixed #99: Word broken even though it would fit on line.
- Fixed #107: Automatic hyphenation is off by one.
- Fixed #122: Take newlines into account when wrapping.
- Fixed #129: Panic on string with em-dash.
Version 0.9.0 — October 5th, 2017
The dependency on term_size
is now optional, and by default this
feature is not enabled. This is a breaking change for users of
Wrapper::with_termwidth
. Enable the term_size
feature to restore
the old functionality.
Added a regression test for the case where width
is set to
usize::MAX
, thanks @Fraser999! All public structs now implement
Debug
, thanks @hcpl!
- Fixed #101: Make
term_size
an optional dependency.
Version 0.8.0 — September 4th, 2017
The Wrapper
stuct is now generic over the type of word splitter
being used. This means less boxing and a nicer API. The
Wrapper::word_splitter
method has been removed. This is a breaking
API change if you used the method to change the word splitter.
The Wrapper
struct has two new methods that will wrap the input text
lazily: Wrapper::wrap_iter
and Wrapper::into_wrap_iter
. Use those
if you will be iterating over the wrapped lines one by one.
Version 0.7.0 — July 20th, 2017
Version 0.7.0 changes the return type of Wrapper::wrap
from
Vec<String>
to Vec<Cow<'a, str>>
. This means that the output lines
borrow data from the input string. This is a breaking API change if
you relied on the exact return type of Wrapper::wrap
. Callers of the
textwrap::fill
convenience function will see no breakage.
The above change and other optimizations makes version 0.7.0 roughly 15-30% faster than version 0.6.0.
The squeeze_whitespace
option has been removed since it was
complicating the above optimization. Let us know if this option is
important for you so we can provide a work around.
Version 0.6.0 — May 22nd, 2017
Version 0.6.0 adds builder methods to Wrapper
for easy one-line
initialization and configuration:
let wrapper = Wrapper::new(60).break_words(false);
It also add a new NoHyphenation
word splitter that will never split
words, not even at existing hyphens.
- Fixed #28: Support not squeezing whitespace.
Version 0.5.0 — May 15th, 2017
Version 0.5.0 has breaking API changes. However, this only affects
code using the hyphenation feature. The feature is now optional, so
you will first need to enable the hyphenation
feature as described
above. Afterwards, please change your code from
wrapper.corpus = Some(&corpus);
to
wrapper.splitter = Box::new(corpus);
Other changes include optimizations, so version 0.5.0 is roughly 10-15% faster than version 0.4.0.
- Fixed #19: Add support for finding terminal size.
- Fixed #25: Handle words longer than
self.width
. - Fixed #26: Support custom indentation.
- Fixed #36: Support building without
hyphenation
. - Fixed #39: Respect non-breaking spaces.
Version 0.4.0 — January 24th, 2017
Documented complexities and tested these via cargo bench
.
Version 0.3.0 — January 7th, 2017
Added support for automatic hyphenation.
Version 0.2.0 — December 28th, 2016
Introduced Wrapper
struct. Added support for wrapping on hyphens.
Version 0.1.0 — December 17th, 2016
First public release with support for wrapping strings on whitespace.
License
Textwrap can be distributed according to the MIT license. Contributions will be accepted under the same license.