Hi all, sorry I inadverdently took this thread off the list! On 4/11/06, I wrote: > Peter, > On 4/10/06, Peter <heisspf@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> Hi, >> >> How do I coerce gvim 6.3.86 to print letter size, page after page? >> >> At present only the first page is printed correctly after that for the second >> and succeeding pages the page advance from the top of the page is much too >> much so that the printed page does not fit the letter size paper. After >> several pages the paper advance is then in the middle of the page. It is as >> legal size would be printed on letter size paper and I have no legal size >> setting. > > Are you able to do the printing with a more GUI-fied editor, like > Gedit or Kate? If so they should be better at printing than Gvim. If > not I recommend a2ps, which converts a lot of formats to PostScript, > with `pretty-printing'. So if you're printing code it'll be formatted > nicely, with keywords in bold, comments italicised, and so on. For > plain text, it'll look fine too. > > $ a2ps file.txt -1 -o file.ps -M Letter > > converts the plain text file file.txt to a PostScript format file > file.ps. Another example: I just used > > $ a2ps tex_fit1003_a1.tex -1 -o tex_fit1003_a1_source.ps -M A4 --delegate=0 > > to pretty-print a LaTeX (plain text) source file into PS. If I didn't > have --delegate=0, a2ps would have run LaTeX on the file and put the > typeset document into the output PS file. > > The a2ps info file is very helpful, and I definitely recommend it > because its output looks very nice, at least to my eyes. > >> >> :help print >> says >> Note: If you are looking for a way to print your text >> file, you need an external program for that. In the > > Maybe they mean something like a2ps. On 4/11/06, Peter <heisspf@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Thanks! > > I am aware that gvim is not necessarily made for good printing. I am using it > to edit files mostly downloaded .html saved with lynx as .txt and since I am > already in vim might as well print if file is not too long. I vaguely remember > that some time ago it did print properly. > > Normally for my printing I am using the following command: > > /usr/bin/fmt -u --width=105 $1 | groff -ms | lpr > > That gives a nice print output, much better than gvim and fewer pages. > > I am using pretty-print through mpdist>mp which has mptool GUI to give print > commands. I use it to print-out my mail. > > I will study a2ps. > > Regards > -- > Peter > > -- Yawar Malaysia +60 (12) 918 6642 Bangladesh +880 (174) 614 754 or +880 (2) 882 1848 or +880 (175) 003 706 or +880 (189) 250 170 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs
