There seems a lot of misinterpretation of Vim, leading to confusion or frustration:
Vim is designed as a *text editor* using the keyboard like in the beginning of computing. Repeatedly there are discussions on 'what the mouse', or like here 'what the print'. IMHO/AFAIK Vim isn't designed for that. Vim isn't a 'word processor' and do-it-all-tool like LiberOffice Write or MS Word. It ain't. It might look and feel nerdy to use a console editor, but then you also have to adapt to the nerd-way of using the software. You'll discover that Vim is loaded with nifty features that makes the keyboard way faster than the mouse! Learn to use the keystrokes as intended. Use another piece of software to do the layout and that kind of things, for example pandoc (https://pandoc.org/). Your output on a printer or PDF will astonish! By adding code for markdown (https://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/) or LaTeX, even a combination of both, printing can be steered towards the wanted output. Examples? Lines starting with 'pandoc' uses that software with a (Vim-made) text as _text_ source. It might need some extra installation. You can save these code snippits eg. in cheat (https://github.com/cheat/cheat): # Text file conversions, basic use pandoc <input_file>.<ext> -o <output_file>.<ext> # To use A4 papersize and 12pt font pandoc -V papersize:a4 -V fontsize:12pt # To use A4 paper with smaller margins pandoc -V geometry:a4paper # To use 'smart' quotes, en- and em- dashes, etc pandoc -s # Use an empty page layout, without pagenumbers etc \pagestyle{empty} # Insert an image, dimensions between {} are at choice # a `\ ' after an image produces just the image without name {html style dimensions} # Insert my signature in letters {width="9.597cm" height="4.538cm"}\ # Insert an extra blank line # use two spaces and a nonbreaking space (about) ` \' # Insert a link to another document or url [The linking text goes here](the link or url goes here) # Pre-press string to make a pdf from markdown pandoc -s -V papersize:a4 -V fontsize:12pt <input_file>.md -o <output_file>.pdf # To make a presentation pandoc -t beamer source.md -o slides.pdf # Styling the presentation pandoc -t beamer source.md -V theme:Warsaw -o slides.pdf # RTFM http://pandoc.org/MANUAL.html # LaTeX Beamer themes http://www.deic.uab.es/~iblanes/beamer_gallery/ Happy Vimming! //meine -- -- You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "vim_use" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/vim_use/Z8LFql0A9KGYU0QN%40trackstand.
