On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 9:36 PM, Russell Gadd <russ.mail.li...@googlemail.com> 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. -- Stephen Nelson-Smith Technical Director Atalanta Systems Ltd www.atalanta-systems.com -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --------------------------------------------------------------
