Kein-Hong, I've seen references to Lua from within SciTE (and related sites) but again I admit I'm not familiar with that tool so I'll chalk this one up to "I'll take your word for it."
I also have Openoffice installed and am familiar with the line numbering tool.. but to my disappointment, when I opened an exported RTF and enabled line numbering, strangely the result was that even wrapped lines were numbered. I'll have to go through the steps again. I'll also try it in a 2.x version to see if it gives a similar result. If it does then it's just a bug, but one to take up with the OOo people and not to discuss here.. ;) Nonetheless, I prefer to avoid using too many tools in order to get simple text editing (and printing) done. IE is ubiquitous as any browser.. OOo still needs to be downloaded and installed. :( On a lighter note, I have decided upon a different solution altogether.. at least for the time being. If one exports to HTML, then inserts "<ol><li>" after the body tag, and then does a search/replace for the literal "<br />" and replace with "<br /><li>", and at the very end includes a "</ol>" before closing the body, you can have a make-shift line-numbered HTML output that can be safely printed using your regular browser -- all in about 3 steps. Thanks to the export.html.title.fullpath variable, one can also entitle the printed page without forgetting where it was first acquired. Personally, I think the printing subsystem should allow for a more ample inclusion of variables, and a lot more flexibility in the print output. I'm quite surprised to learn the only way to get scite to change its output format is to -ahem- recompile the application(?) Isn't that a little extreme for, say, changing a little formatting? I mean, for binary formats like PDF, okay.. since binary is considered one way or another.. but HTML or RTF? Shouldn't text-based output formats be templated instead of hard-coded? Make a properties page.. simple, compact.. optional. I looked into what it would take to compile a version of SciTE for myself.. and it would seem to be pretty straight-forward.. will it take more than downloading the MingW package with GCC, assuming everything in downloaded and installed correctly? I'm willing to do the extra work to spruce up what I can.. with the approval of others of course. Thanks again, kind regards, Julian p.s. I'm moving into XSLT but that's still somewhat daunting if all I want are some small adjustments to the output/export format(s). Would you say this might be easier than tackling MingW/GCC? ----- Original Message ----- From: "Kein-Hong Man" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Discussion of the SciTE editor" <scite-interest@lyra.org> Sent: Tuesday, October 11, 2005 2:01 PM Subject: Re: [scite] Advanced printing controls | Julian Herten-Greaven wrote: | > That's an interesting solution. Mind you, I haven't been able to export to | > that format. I'm using SciTE 1.65. | | The SXW exporter is in Lua and rather slow (tolerable on a fast | PC), but it works and it has many options. Check out: | http://lua-users.org/wiki/SciteScripts | | [snip] | > A similar solution is that one can also export to HTML, then print in IE | > with the appropriate headers, but somehow I've not been able to export with | > line numbers -- can this be done with HTML like with XML? | | OpenOffice 1.x has a menu option to set line numbering. It's very | easy to use. Footers can be created with a few mouse clicks. If | you want them permanently, you can edit the Lua script so that you | get a doc with the correct headers, footers, style and line | numbering exported immediately. | | The nice thing about SXW/ODT is that if you have something in | Unicode, a powerful XML-based document format does save a heck of | a lot of trouble. A bit of tweaking and you have something nice | and ready-to-print. | | On the other hand, if you want to work with basic XML, you might | have to be comfortable with XML-transformation tools and you might | also need to write some XSLT to get FOs (or something like that.) | | -- | Cheers, | Kein-Hong Man (esq.) | Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia _______________________________________________ Scite-interest mailing list Scite-interest@lyra.org http://mailman.lyra.org/mailman/listinfo/scite-interest
