On 12/4/22 03:29 AM, Richard Owlett wrote:
I wish to document a personal project.The desired format will resemble
the outline for term papers we wrote in school in the 50's. Except
some items may be a short paragraph or two long.
I did a web search for text editors with an auto-indent feature.
The only one I recognized was Leafpad. But I couldn't find appropriate
documentation or "howto". Where would I find it?
Any other suggestions for a basic text editor in the Debian repository
with an auto-indent feature. I'm not interested in a full blown word
processor.
TIA
By "outline for term papers", I presume you mean:
I. Topic A
1. Topic A subtopic A
2. Topic A subtopic B
a. Topic A subtopic B subsubtopc A
II. Topic B
...and so on.
"Autoindenting" should be a standard feature of any text editor use for
programming.
I've used gvim for many years and it has this feature. You can set it
during the edit sessions by typing ":set ai", or put "set ai" (or "set
autoindent") in your .vimrc or .gvimrc file.
To make it work conveniently, you might also want to set the tabstop,
which by default is 8 spaces, to something less so you don't use up your
paper width too quickly. An indent of 2 is enough for basic visibility
but 3 or 4 might be a bit nicer to work with the outline number part of
the line. This would allow you to indent a short paragraph under the
outline heading such that it lines up with heading text, as in:
I. Topic A
Paragraph ...
I hope this helps.
Bob
