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to: ZSOLT HENGSPERGER
from: HANSPETER SCHAFFNER
date: 1996-04-22 08:04:00
subject: Pagebreak option?

SL>  You don't (or at least not without a bunch of work on your part)
SL>  ;-) Qedit is a "text editor" as opposed to a "word processor"
SL>  and as such it is designed to work with "pure text" which it
SL>  doesn't format in any way other than allowing you to tell it to
SL>  wrap text and have "sticky indents" and a few other
SL>  convenienence features. Since it has no settings for printer
SL>  support it has no knowledge of things like page length for a
SL>  printer etc. If you wish to force a page break to appear in a
SL>  document at a specific point you can always insert a "form feed"
SL>  character by holding down the "Alt" key and typing "12" on the
SL>  numeric keypad which will insert the ASCII code for a form feed
SL>  in the document (looks like a small circle on top of a "+" sign.
SL>  Qedit also has an extensive macro language available to you and
SL>  I expect you could write a macro to start at the top of the file
SL>  and walk through it marking every 60 (or whatever) lines witha
SL>  demarkation line like you would like to see to show where
SL>  "natural page breaks" would occur. Of course you'd probably need
SL>  to extend the idea to have the macro clean out old marker lines
SL>  and start fresh each time you ran it and since the marker lines
SL>  would be in your file you'd need another macro to remove them
SL>  before printing the file ;-)
Easier to by Qedits "big brother" TSE professionell 2.5 there fairly good
printing control and reformating macro is implemented.
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