[TxMt] Footer for Preview Print other than Prince 5.1

[Laudun John]

On Dec 5, 2006, at 10:23 AM, Lloyd Williams wrote:

> Kevin, I am sorry but I do not understand the two replies. Please  
> explain. I am not a programmer. I am a writer who likes the power  
> of TextMate. Thank you. Lloyd

Lloyd,

I am sympathetic: I too am mostly a writer who understands only a  
little of what transpires on this list. That said, Kevin is  
describing to you ways of getting from MarkDown/MultiMarkDown to PDF  
using only free and open source materials. In this case, he is  
recommending that you use a converter to transform your MarkDown  
formatted files into LaTeX files. Think of Latex -- I hate doing all  
the capitals, so you only get them once -- as another form of markup,  
like HTML or MarkDown. It is a very precise form of markup long used  
by many in the sciences for getting the kind of outputs that others  
had access to only when word processers developed robust page-layout  
capabilities became widely available.

There are a wide variety of Latex installations available, you need  
only google Latex and Mac to discover them, or perhaps someone on  
this list will point you to a package particularly easily adapted/ 
adopted by a newbie.

I can't help you there. I use Mellel when projects get to be a of  
certain structure or size.

I do enjoy doing a lot of writing in TextMate using the MarkDown  
formats, if only I could get some form of code-folding -- I've been  
meaning to ask this list about the possibility of using two returns  
as a way to cue the end of header and how one would include that  
within the parsing language in the bundle. (One of my goals for next  
year is to teach myself PERL -- I'm a folklorist, so PERL's language- 
oriented abilities are useful in and of themselves.)

I hope this helps. My apologies for blurting out my own question in  
the middle of my answer. I will re-post it if it doesn't make any  
sense at another time on this list.

john



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