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+Copyright © 2011 Bart Massey
+
+[This program is licensed under the "MIT License"]
+
+Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person
+obtaining a copy of this software and associated
+documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the
+Software without restriction, including without limitation
+the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute,
+sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to
+permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so,
+subject to the following conditions:
+
+The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall
+be included in all copies or substantial portions of the
+Software.
+
+THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY
+KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE
+WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR
+PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS
+OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR
+OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR
+OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE
+SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.
diff --git a/Setup.hs b/Setup.hs
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+import Distribution.Simple
+main = defaultMain
diff --git a/Text/SimpleTabular.hs b/Text/SimpleTabular.hs
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+-- Copyright © 2011 Bart Massey
+-- [This program is licensed under the "MIT License"]
+-- Please see the file COPYING in the source
+-- distribution of this software for license terms.
+
+-- | Format fields in a tabular fashion. This is not
+--   nearly as sophisticated as the "tabular" package
+--   on hackage (http://hackage.haskell.org/package/tabular),
+--   but may be simpler to use and extend.
+
+module Text.SimpleTabular (tabular)
+where
+
+import Data.List
+
+-- | Given a format string whose characters are 'l', 'r' and
+--   'c' for left-justified, right-justified and centered
+--   columns, and a list of rows, each row consisting of
+--   columns of strings to be formatted, emit a
+--   properly-formatted matrix. Short rows will be padded to
+--   the size of the longest row with empty strings before
+--   the data is applied to the format string, at which
+--   point the number of columns per row must match.
+tabular :: String -> [[String]] -> String
+tabular fmt tableau =
+  let rawCols = 
+        transpose $ padRows tableau
+        where 
+          padRows rows =
+            map (padRow $ maximum $ map length rows) rows
+            where
+              padRow l row =
+                row ++ replicate (l - length row) ""
+      in
+  let padCols = 
+        padCol fmt rawCols
+        where
+          padCol (c : cs) (col : cols)
+            | c `elem` "lrc" =
+              let w = maximum $ map length col
+                  cols' = padCol cs cols
+                  in
+              let Just padf = 
+                    lookup c [
+                      ('l', padLeft),
+                      ('r', padRight),
+                      ('c', padCenter) ]
+                    where
+                      padLeft s = 
+                        s ++ replicate (w - length s) ' '
+                      padRight s = 
+                        replicate (w - length s) ' ' ++ s
+                      padCenter s =
+                        let dw = w - length s in
+                        let hdw = dw `div` 2 in
+                        replicate hdw ' ' ++ s ++ replicate (dw - hdw) ' '
+                  in
+              map padf col : cols'
+          padCol "" [] = []
+          padCol _ _ = error "tabular data error"
+      in
+   unlines $ map unwords $ transpose padCols
diff --git a/simple-tabular.cabal b/simple-tabular.cabal
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+-- Initial simple-tabular.cabal generated by cabal init.  For further 
+-- documentation, see http://haskell.org/cabal/users-guide/
+
+-- The name of the package.
+name:                simple-tabular
+
+-- The package version.  See the Haskell package versioning policy (PVP) 
+-- for standards guiding when and how versions should be incremented.
+-- http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Package_versioning_policy
+-- PVP summary:      +-+------- breaking API changes
+--                   | | +----- non-breaking API additions
+--                   | | | +--- code changes with no API change
+version:             0.1.0.0
+
+-- A short (one-line) description of the package.
+synopsis:            Simple tabular-text formatter
+
+-- A longer description of the package.
+description:         This package has a simplistic formatter
+                     that accepts a troff-style column descriptor
+                     and a list of lists of strings, and produces
+                     a string consisting of a formatted table.
+
+-- URL for the project homepage or repository.
+homepage:            http://github.com/BartMassey/simple-tabular
+
+-- The license under which the package is released.
+license:             MIT
+
+-- The file containing the license text.
+license-file:        COPYING
+
+-- The package author(s).
+author:              Bart Massey
+
+-- An email address to which users can send suggestions, bug reports, and 
+-- patches.
+maintainer:          bart@cs.pdx.edu
+
+-- A copyright notice.
+-- copyright:           
+
+category:            Text
+
+build-type:          Simple
+
+-- Constraint on the version of Cabal needed to build this package.
+cabal-version:       >=1.8
+
+source-repository head
+    type:            git
+    location:        http://github.com/BartMassey/simple-tabular.git
+
+source-repository this
+    type:            git
+    location:        http://github.com/BartMassey/simple-tabular.git
+    tag:             v0.1
+
+library
+  -- Modules exported by the library.
+  exposed-modules:     Text.SimpleTabular
+  
+  -- Modules included in this library but not exported.
+  -- other-modules:       
+  
+  -- Other library packages from which modules are imported.
+  build-depends:       base ==4.5.*
+