Re: Print plugin

On 22/12/11 22:10, Eric Weir wrote:
>
> On Dec 22, 2011, at 12:29 PM, Tony Mechelynck wrote:
>
>> No plugin necessary. See
>>
>> :help :hardcopy
>> :help popt-option
>>
>> Margin setting is included. Not sure about wrapping by words; but you can reformat the text prior to printing, in order to make sure that your lines don't exceed your the width between your print margins.
>
>
> Thanks, Tony. Actually, I do have a little experience with that. From what I can tell from the help, you can setting wrapping, but it appears to be at characters. And on a Mac, which I have, the default and only font is courier.
>
> I've never had occasion to reset line width in the past. [I've been picking up files in TextEdit and printing from there.] If I can do that and print without having to save I imagine that would work. If I have to save to get the new setting to take effect in the print, it might be more trouble than it's worth. [I'd have to go back and reset line width to my normal setting, which is to wrap by word at the screen.
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You can set line width (or the following reformatting will use 80
characters if the width is not set) by means of the 'textwidth' option

:set tw=60

...reformat... (for instance for a plain *.txt file)

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...print (after setting 'printoptions' etc. as you want them)

:set penc=latin1 pfn& pheader&
:set popt=left:1in,right:1in,top:1in,bottom:1in
:set popt+=header:2,syntax:n,number:n,wrap:n
:set popt+=duplex:off,collate:y,jobsplit:n,portrait:y
:set popt+=paper:A4,formfeed:y
:hardcopy

...and undo the reformatting which was done before printing.

u

All the :set commands may of course happen in advance (e.g. in your
vimrc) if you don't need to change the values. I'm showing all details
of 'printoptions' but if set once and for all in your vimrc you may of
course omit the sub-options whose defaults are OK for you.

A 'textwidth' of 60 is typical for 8"-wide paper (A4 is about 8¼"), 10
cpi (or 7.2pt character width, which, depending on the font family, may
correspond to 10pt height or so), and 1" margin on either side.

Vim can center lines, or justify left (default) or right, but, alas, not
both. For that you need either a word processor (and a .doc, .odt or
similar document, which is not "text" that Vim can edit), or a browser
(and an HTML document, optionally with a CSS style sheet, both of which
you may create in Vim if you know the syntax). <span
class="nostalgy">Ah, where are the times of PC-Write (for IBM PC-DOS 2
or higher) which could do justification or even, on a 9- or 19-needle
dot-matrix printer, proportional printing and microjustification, all
with a text document? Gone with the snows of yesteryear, AFAICT!</span>

See
:help :set
:help 'tw'
:help gg
:help gq
:help G
:help penc-option
:help pfn-option
:help pheader-option
:help popt-option
:help :hardcopy
:help u

Best regards,
Tony.
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