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to: DONALD ROBERTS
from: SID LEE
date: 1996-10-06 11:12:00
subject: Novice user questions

 -=> Quoting Donald Roberts to All <=-
 DR> First, I hope to create a macro which will start at the beginning of
 DR> a text file and reformat each paragraph in that file.  Implicit in
 DR> designing such a macro is the ability to search for two consecutive
 DR> enter commands.  Even using the control p literal followed by a
 Qedit cannot search for CR/LF. It's "big brother", the
 commercial version called "TSE (The Semware Editor") can do this
 if you run it in "binary" mode. Depending on what you wish to do
 in the way of reformatting the problem may or may not be
 solvable with Qedit. I don't work much beyond the simplest of
 throwaway macros in Qedit but I've seen some breathtaking
 examples of what others have done here in this forum so I
 suspect if you describe your specific requirements in more
 detail some of the "macro gurus" can tell you whether it is
 possible and perhaps indicate how to proceed ;-)
 DR> Second, I am somewhat confused about the print command.  Specifically,
 DR> I wish to print (not save) a disc file.  By doing so, I assumed that
 DR> there would be the designated left margin, right margin, top margin
 DR> and bottom margin.  Not so.  What I get is a file where the text 
 DR> begins on line 1, not on line 6 as I had expected.  There is a
 DR> 10-space left-hand margin as I wished.  However, instead of a 10-space
 DR> right- hand margin as I had wished, the file is the same width as
 I don't use version 3 of Qedit but in version 2 there is a
 command "SetRmargin" (R or  which probably
 does what you want. Qedit always prints the file as displayed so
 if you reset the right margin shorter you will need to rewrap
 the lines so they fit. Remember it is a text editor not a word
 processor so it doesn't, by default fiddle with the length of
 the lines. After all many folks use it to edit program code
 where sticking in extra line ends is very bad behaviour indeed
 ;-)
 -- Regards --
    Sid Lee (FIDO - 1:134/122,  Internet - sidlee@agt.net)
 
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