On 2019-09-18, 'Ottavio Caruso' via vim_use wrote: > First of all, I know vim is a text editor and not a word processor, but... > > I have a heavily formatted resume in pdf that I want to make as > machine-readable as possible yet decently readable by a human. > > I have converted it into plain text first, then, in vim: > > :set textwidth=80 > > I selected the text with "V" and applied "gq". Then I've removed all > formatting and put a bit of spaces and tabs here and there. > > It looks great in vim, but when I view it in Pluma, Gedit or Xed > (Debian Stretch) the formatting is all messed up. Some line breaks are > not recognised; tabs are not implemented consistently. > > Where would I start troubleshooting the issue? Have I followed the > wrong workflow?
Formatting differences are affected by: - tabstop settings - mixing tabs and spaces for indenting - wrapping of long lines - end-of-line characters - monospace vs. proportional fonts and probably other factors I haven't thought of. For troubleshooting, I would start with executing :verbose set tabstop? to see the current tabstop setting and where it was last set, and :set list :set listchars+=tab:>- :set listchars+=nbsp:_ to see ends of lines, tabs and non-breaking spaces. Regards, Gary -- -- You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "vim_use" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to vim_use+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/vim_use/20190918184347.GA21722%40phoenix.