[Novalug] Printing question

[Kevin Dwyer]

On 12/8/07, DonJr <djr1952 at hotpop.com> wrote:
>
> On Sat, 2007-12-08 at 01:02 -0500, Ellis wrote:
> > 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
>
> <GRIN>
> Why install KDE and all it libs and other junk in order to install/run
> 'kate' when gedit will do the same thing?
> </GRIN>



Why install Gnome and all of its libs and other junk when emacs will do the
same thing, in postscript, with more lines on a page?  ;-)
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