Author: Graham Bleach Date: To: Hampshire LUG Discussion List Subject: Re: [Hampshire] Wanted: text editor with more print control
2009/2/22 Russell Gadd <russ.mail.lists@???>: > I tend to write documentation (of all sorts) using a simple text file rather
> than create a word processing document as I find it durable over time. At
> present I am using Gnome's gedit in Debian which is ok but I'd like a bit
> more control over printing - for example it doesn't allow you to set a
> standard format with different print margins. The previous version in Etch
> used margins I liked but the Lenny version doesn't. I'd like to find another
> text editor I can use which is fairly simple but allows more printing
> control e.g. to be able set up a default format for margins, headers and
> footers. Any suggestions would be appreciated.
An alternative approach, which I have used in the past is to edit in
one application and print from another. In my case, vim and firefox
respectively.