You'll reach the Print Dialog via File - Print.
The user settings of the print dialog is stored in MEprint.dta.
You can enter a header line and a footer line. If a such a line is defined, ME will print a line between header/footer and the running text.
You can use four variables in the header and footer line:
[DATE] [DATETIME] [NAME] [FULLNAME]
"Name" is the filename without the drive and directory name, "Fullname" has got drive
letter and directories included.
The "Date" is the file date, "DateTime" shows Date and Time. If the file has been
modified and not saved yet, "Date" and "DateTime" shows the current system date/time
instead of the file date/time.
Instead of the # hash sign, the current page number will be shown.
With Printer Fonts you can separately select a font for the running text, the header line and the footer line.
The Margin in mm does not relate to the physical paper margin, it does relate to the printable area. That means a margin of 0 will rest a margin in the physical paper printout. The length of the separation line between header/footer line and running text depends on the right margin.
The formatting (line breaks) of the printout is the same as in the editor. You have to pay attention by yourself that the text fits the paper. Select a Printer Font for running text which is small enough and you can reduce the window width of the editor.
With Printer selection you can select between different printers which are installed on your computer. Via Printer selection - Properties you'll get a printer specific dialog which is generated by the printer driver software.
Colored Print let you select black and white printout or colored printout. The colors relate to the colors in the editor (colored locate strings).
Copies let you select the number of printouts. The printouts will be sorted: pages 1-2-3, 1-2-3. If you select a number of copies in the printer property dialog (Printer selection - properties), you'll get the order 1,1,1 - 2,2,2 - 3,3,3.
Line Height sets the line height in 1/48 inches. 8 is the default linespacing of a conventional typewriter. 12 means 150% of the default typewriter linespacing. 10 is a good choice for Times Roman 12 or Helvetica/Arial 12.
With group lines you can omit that a few lines of a paragraph are located at the bottom of a page. The higher the value, the less parapgraphs are separated on two pages.
You can manually force a page break by entering a line with 20 or more dots, beginning with a dot in the first column:
last line of old page .................................... first line of new page
Alternatively, you can enter the Wordstar dot command .PA (Page). The dot has to be in the first column, otherwise ".PA" will be printed.
Printer Fonts let you separately select fonts for header, footer line and running text. Only fixed spacing
Number of Pages? calculates the number of pages and lines, dependent on the current line height, margins and selected printer. After pressing the button, the page breaks are shown in the editor as floating yellow background. White lines are on top of a page, yellow lines on bottom of the page. If the page breaks do not fit your purpose, you can enter empty lines in the editor or insert .PA or ........................ lines.
A header line and footer line reduces the number of lines per page: A header/footer
line is one line and the separation line also one line.