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Nopers. We're talking super old school. When I want something formatted like that, I typically type some text into a vim session, then leverage the unix/linux "fmt" command a la:
:%!fmt -60
and then try the same with different numeric values until the alignment is at least close to appealing, then tinker with synonyms (of different length, of course) until I'm liking how it looks in a fixed-width font.
(':%!' being vim-speak for "pass all lines of vim buffer content to the stdin of a program)
Oh fair enough haha - I usually read your stuff 2-3 times before the meaning sinks in, and I guess I never quite grokked it this time (other than the theme "old mcdonald") :-)
In Emacs, to do the same, you set the "fill-column" value to a desired column number, and then hit Alt-Q as often as you please.