On 25/10/2004, at 1:55 PM, José Campos wrote:
But printing plain text from a plain text editor is really alien to me ;) so I was curious, what options do people expect to see?
Something like BBEdit print options?
Allan doesn't own BBEdit, and it's best that he doesn't really see how other's do it... best off coming up with own solution -- safer, cleaner, and more chance of innovation.
I.e. should it always be soft wrapped? Should the font be changeable in the printing dialog, or just use the document font? Should it have the option to print with/without line numbers? Another tab-size? How about syntax-highlight, should that be turned into b/w (there's a quartz filter to turn it into grey-scale by default)? etc. etc.
All these parameters should be available in the print dialog box,or (let's dream :) in the Preference dialog box
They should be in the print dialogue, and be "remembered" between prints. In addition, I like the idea that I could have a couple of different sets of print dialogues preset and available as pull-down menu, much like the printer defaults and saved settings in OS X, and the PDF export options of programs like InDesign.
Add option to set manual page break in the document (perhaps thisdoes already exists?) and a print preview (or at least see page break as grey line in the document window)
Too much... it's not a word processor :) I think an option in the print dialogue which makes bookmarks (those stars) act like forced page breaks would be plenty.
Insert header in every page of the document with file path, datelast saved, insert page footer with page number and total number of page of the document etc...
And if this header was customisable with TM_* variables (and some new vars), etc etc, that would be great.
Justin