Hi Chris,
Man that's just awesome. Some to read, and a fix that works instantly. Thanks a
bunch.
Paul.
On Feb 27, 2012, at 5:04 PM, Chris Blouch wrote:
This is a perfect example of the kind of stuff you can do in the unix shell
of terminal. Save a text file somewhere handy like your desktop.
Dear listers,
I have an old braille printer that is not attached to my mac. To emboss
something, all I have to do is create simple plain text files with 27 lines per
page, and no more than 30 characters per line. Looking at how text edit handles
printing however, that works with inches or
Oo, I have much the same concern, so I'm looking forward to hearing more about
this.
js
On Feb 27, 2012, at 9:42 AM, Paul Erkens wrote:
Dear listers,
I have an old braille printer that is not attached to my mac. To emboss
something, all I have to do is create simple plain text files with 27
This is a perfect example of the kind of stuff you can do in the unix
shell of terminal. Save a text file somewhere handy like your desktop. I
called mine test.txt. Then open terminal and cd to wherever you have
the file. So for me I did
cd ~/Desktop
then use the fold command which breaks
Hello John and Paul,
Have you looked at the preferences for TextEdit? If you bring up the
preferences from TextEdit using Command-comma, the first tab, for New
Document, lets you specify format as either plain text or rich text with radio
buttons, then next lets you specify the window size
Hi Chris,
I agree that this stuff is easy to do in Terminal, but a lot of people don't
feel comfortable with Terminal and the command line. Besides, this still
doesn't address getting this printed out, so you'd have to add the pipe to a
selected printer.
It's actually not hard to do what
Yes, having just read your message I didn't realize textedit could do
this. I agree that staying out of terminal, if possible, should be the
easier way.
CB
On 2/27/12 9:27 AM, Esther wrote:
Hi Chris,
I agree that this stuff is easy to do in Terminal, but a lot of people don't
feel
