Feature request

[brad-82]

Hello -- I recently entered a feature request and was redirected to this
mailing list. If this is the wrong address, please advise. Thanks.

The feature I was looking for is a line spacing option in Gedit's
preference dialogue.
Specifically, 1.5x or 2x.

Reason: I frequently print documents to paper for editing, and a bit of
room for inserting text, notes, etc, between the lines is desirable.
I realize this can be accomplished by double tapping the enter key, but
usually I write without line-breaks, depending on the editor for a
carriage return. Double spacing is a feature most often found on word
processors and not on desktop editors, but I use Gedit to write markup,
articles, etc, because it's light, quick and uncomplicated. It's also
very reliable. If this is a complicated issue, don't hesitate to 'file'
the idea.

Thanks


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[Simon van der Linden-4]

On Sun, 2008-08-24 at 15:42 -0700, brad wrote:

> Hello -- I recently entered a feature request and was redirected to this
> mailing list. If this is the wrong address, please advise. Thanks.
>
> The feature I was looking for is a line spacing option in Gedit's
> preference dialogue.
> Specifically, 1.5x or 2x.
>
> Reason: I frequently print documents to paper for editing, and a bit of
> room for inserting text, notes, etc, between the lines is desirable.
> I realize this can be accomplished by double tapping the enter key, but
> usually I write without line-breaks, depending on the editor for a
> carriage return. Double spacing is a feature most often found on word
> processors and not on desktop editors, but I use Gedit to write markup,
> articles, etc, because it's light, quick and uncomplicated. It's also
> very reliable. If this is a complicated issue, don't hesitate to 'file'
> the idea.

Hi Brad,

What do you mean exactly: to have a bigger line spacing on paper or on screen?

On screen, the text is displayed with a GTKSourceView, whose style can be customized, but I haven't seen a line-spacing option in the API yet. Then, I think it would be tricky and/or complicated to achieve.

On paper, I don't know much. But this could be an option to add to the printing dialog, in the "Text Editor" tab.

However, I'm not a specialist of GEdit's internals and I'm certainly wrong on some points.

Cheers,

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[Curtis Hovey]

On Mon, 2008-09-01 at 11:19 +0200, Simon van der Linden wrote:

> On Sun, 2008-08-24 at 15:42 -0700, brad wrote:
> > Hello -- I recently entered a feature request and was redirected to this
> > mailing list. If this is the wrong address, please advise. Thanks.
> >
> > The feature I was looking for is a line spacing option in Gedit's
> > preference dialogue.
> > Specifically, 1.5x or 2x.
> >
> > Reason: I frequently print documents to paper for editing, and a bit of
> > room for inserting text, notes, etc, between the lines is desirable.
> > I realize this can be accomplished by double tapping the enter key, but
> > usually I write without line-breaks, depending on the editor for a
> > carriage return. Double spacing is a feature most often found on word
> > processors and not on desktop editors, but I use Gedit to write markup,
> > articles, etc, because it's light, quick and uncomplicated. It's also
> > very reliable. If this is a complicated issue, don't hesitate to 'file'
> > the idea.
>
> Hi Brad,
>
> What do you mean exactly: to have a bigger line spacing on paper or on
> screen?
>
> On screen, the text is displayed with a GTKSourceView, whose style can
> be customized, but I haven't seen a line-spacing option in the API
> yet. Then, I think it would be tricky and/or complicated to achieve.
>
> On paper, I don't know much. But this could be an option to add to the
> printing dialog, in the "Text Editor" tab.

Like the description of this feature and the proposed implementation.
I've used Find and replace to double space the text, print it, then undo
the change.

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