[Novalug] Printing question
Ellis
ellis at epierce.net
Sat Dec 8 01:02:53 EST 2007
On Friday 07 December 2007 23:40, Dan Arico wrote:
> On Friday 07 December 2007 23:14, Charles M Howe wrote:
> > List,
> >
> > I have a text file, (created using vi) of considerable length to print.
> > It consists mainly of single lines but sometimes (a few times a page)
> > there are two lines of text. Then there is a blank line.
> >
> > The inelegant way of printing it is to insert a new page (control-L)
> > after 60 (or 59, or even 58)lines of text, then a few blank lines. But
> > that gets tedious. Can anyone suggest a better way of doing it?
> >
> > Charlie
>
> What's wrong with opening it in Open Office as a text file and printing
> from that?
Why use Open Office (unless it is already open)? Open it in Kate, and it will
print 55 lines per page, with a header showing the date, file name, and page
number. Fast opening, and no extra formatting steps.
Ellis Pierce
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