Page margins like in a word processor?
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Is it possible to add white margins (left and if possible also top) around the text? I’m using Notepad++ for taking notes and editing them, and it would be great to have a little (white) space around the notes. A top margin is easily done by adding a new line, but pre-configured margins (both left and top) on startup would be awsome. I hope someone can help me out!
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Settings > Preferences > Print > Margin Setting
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Thanks Peter. I actually meant the margins in the editor itself whilst writing.
I came up with this workaround: If I activate/show the line numbers margin (under Settings > Editing) and change its colour to white (Settings > Style Configurator > Global Styles > Line number margin > Foreground colour (white)), and finally choose a “blank” font on the same tab (Symbols), I get a completly white left margin.
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Axiomatic Ones:
I would like a larger, just a little bit larger, margin after the ‘Line Number’ column. It takes a little too long (for me) to place the cursor at the very beginning of a line.
Ion Saliu
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I know it’s been two years but just in case you haven’t found it yet:
Go to Preferences, select Editing and uncheck No edge in the section Border Width. Then set the width using the slider which is positioned to the left of the checkbox. -
Regarding my previous post (which cannot be edited): This seems to only work for the right margin though and the slider doesn’t work at all…
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Is there a way to set upper margin size?
And I don’t mean frame thickness (in settings).
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@GregorJan said in Page margins like in a word processor?:
And I don’t mean frame thickness (in settings).
Then your screenshot does not do a good job of indicating what you want to change. If this is in regards to your other recent post, see my answer there. If this is different, you are going to have to do a better job explaining what you want.
And remember, despite the title of this topic, Notepad++ is a Text Editor, not a Word Processor, and one should not expect to be able to assign different formatting to different paragraphs like you can in a Word Processor.
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@PeterJones I meant
something like this Padding Left/Right setting, but for upper space between the text field and program window/tab bar. -
As far as I know, the underlying Scintilla library that Notepad++ uses for that has the ability to set the left and right padding, but does not list the ability to change the top/bottom padding. Sorry.
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@PeterJones Can it be added as feature request?
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@GregorJan said in Page margins like in a word processor?:
@PeterJones Can it be added as feature request?
See the FAQ. But since the library might control that section of the screen, I don’t know whether there’s anything the Notepad++ developers can do about it – it may have to be changed in the library first. But I don’t know enough about the source code to be the deciding factor on that.
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@GregorJan said in Page margins like in a word processor?:
@PeterJones I meant
something like this Padding Left/Right setting, but for upper space between the text field and program window/tab bar.The ability to add some top padding would be great. The top line of text has no padding at all.
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@Stiggles said in Page margins like in a word processor?:
The ability to add some top padding would be great. The top line of text has no padding at all.
Did you read my last post in this discussion? The library that Notepad++ uses doesn’t have the feature to add top/bottom padding, so Notepad++ cannot make use of a non-existent feature. Someone who wanted that feature would have to request it from the library, they would have to implement it, and then Notepad++ would have to update its copy of the library. Since no one has taken step 1, saying “me too” is futile.