From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: robert.thorpe@antenova.com (Rob Thorpe) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: plain printing Date: 12 Jun 2003 01:32:46 -0700 Organization: http://groups.google.com/ Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <1a61f7e5.0306120032.caee3db@posting.google.com> References: <87y908hnel.fsf@smtp.blueyonder.co.uk> <8465nc2zna.fsf@lucy.is.informatik.uni-duisburg.de> <87znkogwih.fsf@smtp.blueyonder.co.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1055406833 29329 80.91.224.249 (12 Jun 2003 08:33:53 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2003 08:33:53 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jun 12 10:33:48 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 19QNWm-0007ce-00 for ; Thu, 12 Jun 2003 10:33:48 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.20) id 19QNYQ-00040Z-CE for gnu-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 12 Jun 2003 04:35:30 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews1.google.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 28 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 212.135.40.163 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1055406766 5582 127.0.0.1 (12 Jun 2003 08:32:46 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: 12 Jun 2003 08:32:46 GMT Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:114390 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:10884 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:10884 Keith O'Connell wrote in message news:<87znkogwih.fsf@smtp.blueyonder.co.uk>... > >>>>> "KG" == Kai Großjohann writes: > > >> However, I want the basic print option to work, and when I > >> select the less fancy "Print Buffer" option, all I get is a > >> single sheet with the dtg, title and page number on the header > >> line and nothing else! > > KG> Try M-x lpr-buffer RET, please. Any error msg? What happens? > > Well, I did that a on a buffer of 104 lines. I got no headers this > time and only got the first two lines of the files > >-------------------------------------------------------------------- > -*- Mode: outline -*- > > * order > >-------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Strangely the "* order" line was printed, right justified, whereas in > the buffer itself it was hard over to the left. > > There were no error messages. What next? Try doing lpr filename from the shell, see what happens, try doing pr filename | lpr then you know if its emacs fault. It's so long since modern printers have been exposed to raw text that they have almost forgotten how to print it. Finally try using CR-LF line ends. If you get really desparate read the lpd manual.