Re: need .md reader that can print ONLY tha page being viewed

2024-11-19 Thread Ryan Nowakowski
On Sun, Oct 27, 2024 at 02:07:25PM -0400, gene heskett wrote: > Seems to me we should not have to print a 90 page document to get the one > page/paragraph of interest. What do folks use now? Hey Gene, I'm assuming that your .md file is in markdown format. If so, you have a few choices. There's no

Re: need .md reader that can print ONLY tha page being viewed

2024-10-29 Thread Max Nikulin
On 29/10/2024 10:42, David Wright wrote: Of course, much of this thread is moot if Gene is concerned only with printing parts of a text file, rather than sections of the processed marked-up document. I think, reading a rendered page from a document is more pleasant than raw markup, so selectio

Re: need .md reader that can print ONLY tha page being viewed

2024-10-28 Thread David Wright
On Sun 27 Oct 2024 at 22:44:58 (-0500), David Wright wrote: > On Sun 27 Oct 2024 at 15:24:52 (-0400), Stefan Monnier wrote: > > > Seems to me we should not have to print a 90 page document to get the one > > > page/paragraph of interest. > > > > I agree, but I wonder why you think it needs to be s

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2024-10-28 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Mon, Oct 28, 2024 at 03:05:32AM -0400, gene heskett wrote: > > . > I've got a gui on both ends of the net but cups on armbian can't see the > printers shared by debian/bookworm. So we fix that first. If we can... > > Cheers, Gene Heskett, CET. > -- > Hi Gene, Armbian is off-topic here (as of

Re: need .md reader that can print ONLY tha page being viewed

2024-10-28 Thread gene heskett
On 10/27/24 14:28, jeremy ardley wrote: On 28/10/24 02:07, gene heskett wrote: Seems to me we should not have to print a 90 page document to get the one page/paragraph of interest. What do folks use now? Cheers, Gene Heskett, CET. Quite often in a web browser you can select the text and r

Re: need .md reader that can print ONLY tha page being viewed

2024-10-28 Thread gene heskett
On 10/27/24 14:28, David Wright wrote: On Sun 27 Oct 2024 at 14:07:25 (-0400), gene heskett wrote: Seems to me we should not have to print a 90 page document to get the one page/paragraph of interest. What do folks use now? pdftk, now pdftk-java installed it, but the assumption that its a pdf

Re: need .md reader that can print ONLY tha page being viewed

2024-10-27 Thread Andy Smith
Hi Gene, On Sun, Oct 27, 2024 at 02:07:25PM -0400, gene heskett wrote: > Seems to me we should not have to print a 90 page document to get the one > page/paragraph of interest. What do folks use now? What procedure / software do you use right now to solve this problem for really big plain text (.

Re: need .md reader that can print ONLY tha page being viewed

2024-10-27 Thread David Wright
On Sun 27 Oct 2024 at 15:24:52 (-0400), Stefan Monnier wrote: > > Seems to me we should not have to print a 90 page document to get the one > > page/paragraph of interest. > > I agree, but I wonder why you think it needs to be stated. > What tool are you using and what part of it makes you think i

Re: need .md reader that can print ONLY tha page being viewed

2024-10-27 Thread Stefan Monnier
> Seems to me we should not have to print a 90 page document to get the one > page/paragraph of interest. I agree, but I wonder why you think it needs to be stated. What tool are you using and what part of it makes you think it really wants you to print all 90 pages of a document? FWIW, nowadays

Re: need .md reader that can print ONLY tha page being viewed

2024-10-27 Thread Mike Castle
A feature of markdown (.md) is that it is plain text. Bring it up in your favorite text editor, save just the bits you need, print with plain old lp(1). No "reader" necessary.

Re: need .md reader that can print ONLY tha page being viewed

2024-10-27 Thread tomas
On Mon, Oct 28, 2024 at 02:27:34AM +0800, jeremy ardley wrote: > > > On 28/10/24 02:07, gene heskett wrote: > > Seems to me we should not have to print a 90 page document to get the > > one page/paragraph of interest. What do folks use now? > > > > Cheers, Gene Heskett, CET. > > > Quite often

Re: need .md reader that can print ONLY tha page being viewed

2024-10-27 Thread jeremy ardley
On 28/10/24 02:07, gene heskett wrote: Seems to me we should not have to print a 90 page document to get the one page/paragraph of interest. What do folks use now? Cheers, Gene Heskett, CET. Quite often in a web browser you can select the text and right click and print selection. If yo

Re: need .md reader that can print ONLY tha page being viewed

2024-10-27 Thread David Wright
On Sun 27 Oct 2024 at 14:07:25 (-0400), gene heskett wrote: > Seems to me we should not have to print a 90 page document to get the > one page/paragraph of interest. What do folks use now? pdftk, now pdftk-java Cheers, David.

need .md reader that can print ONLY tha page being viewed

2024-10-27 Thread gene heskett
Seems to me we should not have to print a 90 page document to get the one page/paragraph of interest. What do folks use now? Cheers, Gene Heskett, CET. -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author, 19