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+# justify
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+...is a single purpose program for block justification of UTF-8 encoded monospace text.
+
+Textual input is read from _STDIN_ and written to _STDOUT_ in its justified form. The default output width of 60 characters may be customized via the first application argument.
+
+## Build
+
+	mkdir build
+	cd build
+	cmake ..
+	make
+
+A current C++ compiler with support for C++14 is required.