On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 9:36 PM, Russell Gadd
<russ.mail.lists@???> wrote:
> 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.
Have a look at the concept of "Markdown". Emacs has a good markdown
mode - there may well be one for vim.
S.
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Stephen Nelson-Smith
Technical Director
Atalanta Systems Ltd
www.atalanta-systems.com
