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author | Steve Losh <steve@stevelosh.com> |
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date | Sun, 27 May 2018 16:04:34 -0400 |
parents | 3f9040eb223f |
children | 04c1ad3989b0 |
branches/tags | (none) |
files | README.markdown |
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--- a/README.markdown Sun May 27 16:00:53 2018 -0400 +++ b/README.markdown Sun May 27 16:04:34 2018 -0400 @@ -1,6 +1,10 @@ Bobbin is a simple (50 LOC) word-wrapping library for strings in Common Lisp. It depends only on `split-sequence`. +It aims to be simple, work nicely for the majority of cases, and degrade +gracefully for edge cases. It is not particularly concerned with speed — if you +need very high-performance word wrapping Bobbin is not for you. + * **License:** MIT * **Documentation:** <http://github.com/sjl/bobbin/> (this `README`) * **Mercurial:** <http://bitbucket.org/sjl/bobbin/> @@ -25,9 +29,6 @@ Philosophy ---------- -Bobbin is about fifty lines of code. It aims to be simple, work well most of -the time, and fail gracefully for edge cases. - Bobbin will try to break lines at whitespace. It will only break a word in the middle if there's no other choice. It does not try to hyphenate, or parse hyphenation: