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How to insert a literal character

2006-03-16
2012-11-13
  • Nobody/Anonymous

    Hi,
    How can i insert a literal character (Ctrl-L for form feed) at the cursor position ? (The kind of thing you do with Ctrl-V in vi)

     
    • Nobody/Anonymous

      Second question: how can i control the printing of a file (i.e. force a page break)?

       
      • Nobody/Anonymous

        how can i control the printing of a file (i.e. force a page break)?

         
    • Nobody/Anonymous

      How can i do page break or Ctrl-L for form feed

       
    • MJG

      MJG - 2007-04-20

      I use Alt-012 to enter a formfeed character into the file (I'm using ANSI encoding).  I don't know if that gets sent to the printer, but it puts "FF" in white letters over black background into my file, and that is definitely a formfeed character.

      You can also open a new document and select the "TextFX > TextFX Tools > Insert Ascii Chart or Character" menuitem to show an ASCII chart, then copy/paste most of the control characters that appear in that document's right-hand column (not NUL, CR, LF, or TAB, though).   --Joel