Print Selection... menu item in editors and other applications

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4 total messages Started by Herb Weiner Wed, 08 Oct 1986 19:33

#7532

Author: Herb Weiner
Date: Wed, 08 Oct 1986 19:33

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MacTerminal has an extremely useful function in the File menu which allows
any contiguous subset of the document to be printed.  This menu item is
labeled "Print Selection...".  To use it, select the desired text and
choose the menu item.

The question: Is there any editor or word processor which provides this
              function?  (If not, why not?)

The request:  Software developers (including Apple): This is extremely
              useful, especially during program development.  Please
              add this function to your editors.

                                   -- Herb Weiner (...!tektronix!midas!herbw)

Re: Print Selection... menu item in editors and other applications

#7543

Author: A Kacker
Date: Thu, 09 Oct 1986 18:42

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In article <735@midas.UUCP> herbw@midas.UUCP (Herb Weiner) writes:
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>MacTerminal has an extremely useful function in the File menu which allows
>any contiguous subset of the document to be printed.  This menu item is
>The request:  Software developers (including Apple): This is extremely
>              useful, especially during program development.  Please
>              add this function to your editors.
>
>                                   -- Herb Weiner (...!tektronix!midas!herbw)
Why should one be restricted to contiguous sections only ? It would 
be nice to be able to select different subsections of a document to 
be printed or saved to a disk file.







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Re: Print Selection... menu item in editors and other applications

#7552

Author: Werner Uhrig
Date: Fri, 10 Oct 1986 02:32

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In article <767@ur-tut.UUCP>, akk2@ur-tut.UUCP (A Kacker) writes:
> In article <735@midas.UUCP> herbw@midas.UUCP (Herb Weiner) writes:
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> >MacTerminal has an extremely useful function in the File menu which allows
> >any contiguous subset of the document to be printed.  This menu item is
> >                                   -- Herb Weiner (...!tektronix!midas!herbw)
> Why should one be restricted to contiguous sections only ? It would 
> be nice to be able to select different subsections of a document to 
> be printed or saved to a disk file.

I can't help but jump in and yell for the missing capability to APPEND to
existing files ...

and while I'm yelling, when is Apple going to come out with an upgrade for
MacWrite (at least the manual that explains how) to recover from a crash
using the work-files that still lie around.  Just yesterday, I got a message
from a fellow-netter, telling me how his Mac crashed at 1am and after restarting
he found those "funny-named" files lieing around.  He tried to look at them
using MacWrite, but that wouldn't work.  so he double-clicked the text-doc
he had been working on with the vaguest of hopes that, just maybe, some of his
work was not lost - vain, of course.  Then, when he quit MacWrite, the funny
files were gone .....  do I need say more?  (brought to you by the folks with
the thin manuals, that don't have the word "Errors" in the index or Table of
Contents.  Wishful thinking that hurts all users, I say)

Quite honestly, MacWrite, both program and (lack of) documentation is not
a product I'd be very proud of - I wonder if Apple is?!
Oh yeah, the paper and print quality is great!!!

Re: Print Selection... menu item in edit

#7600

Author: mjbo
Date: Sat, 11 Oct 1986 19:25

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Subject: Print Selection
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In his recent note Herb Weiner mourns the Lack of "Print Selection".

He can cast off the sackcloth and ashes as soon he gets hold of
the Macintosh Programmer's Workbench (now in Beta Test and apparently
very near release).  If Print Selection makes him happy, the rest of
this development system shuld make him ecstatic (SP?).

Mark Borgerson


mjbo@orstcs

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