rbeach@slate.mines.colorado.edu (Richard Beach) (04/27/91)
I hope that someone else has managed to solve this little puzzle.
I have source that was done up in vi with the tabs set to 4 spaces.
I want to print it.
It loses the ends of lines off the edge of the page.
I've looked through manuals for several hours to find a solution.
None of what I've tried has worked.
The two types of solutions I've tried for have been:
1) getting lpr to set the tabstops to 4 characters instead of 8.
It just doesn't seem to want to do that, but it sure
seems like it ought to.
2) Changing some sort of default so that I get landscape mode with
lpr. I haven't played with this as much, but basically have
tried a few permutations of:
dwrite System PrinterOrientation LandScape
This seems like it would sort of be a nice thing to do
for other reasons too.
So, has anyone managed either of these two things? Would you please
let me in on the secret. And, could you please let me know with e-mail,
since I am sort of busy finishing things up for the end of the semester right
now, and missing out on news.
Thank you.
[sorry if I sound a bit short here, but I am. Pnews and the machine have
been less than cooperative this evening.]
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UUCP : ...isis!csm9a!rbeach | mdixon@parc.xerox.com (Mike Dixon) (04/27/91)
(a) to print your file with tabs every four characters, pipe it through
expand -4
(b) to print it in landscape mode, use enscript -r
(to save paper, do both and use enscript's 2-column mode:
expand -4 <your-file | enscript -2r
)
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.mike.rbeach@slate.mines.colorado.edu (Richard Beach) (04/28/91)
In article <1991Apr26.181443.25559@slate.mines.colorado.edu> rbeach@slate.mines.colorado.edu (Richard Beach) writes: > > I have source that was done up in vi with the tabs set to 4 spaces. > I want to print it. > It loses the ends of lines off the edge of the page. > > 1) getting lpr to set the tabstops to 4 characters instead of 8. > > 2) Changing some sort of default so that I get landscape mode with > lpr. > I have gotten a number of responses, and have gotten the problem solved. Thank you very much to everyone who helped. Several people pointed me towards the expand(1) command, which I had overlooked before. Something to the effect of alias lpr "expand \!\!:1 | /usr/ucb/lpr" was an ideal solution for my situation. The enscript(1) command was also sugested for obtaining landscape mode prints. Using edit to print was also sugested, but that sort of seemed a hassle to me, since I don't always work on the console, and even when I do, do a lot of work in a terminal window. Thanks again for all the help. :) --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Richard Beach @ Colorado School of Mines Golden, Colorado USA I-Net and BitNet : rbeach@mines | CS/CH or : rbeach@slate.mines.colorado.edu | UUCP : ...isis!csm9a!rbeach |