Then open the document again and you'll have your custom margins. Here a few examples:įinally save the modified document and change the preference settings back to what they were originally. List markers typically start at the left margin, but may be indented by up to three spaces. You have to replace the stars with the correct number in Twips (1 Twip = 1/1440 inch). Any decent text editor should make email-style quoting easy. Now you can set the margins how you like. So add these after the given ones for the side margins, like this: Now to define customized top and bottom margins you have to add margt and margb, and similarly to before 't'=top, and 'b'=bottom. This defines the left and right margins, thats what the 'l' and 'r' behind marg stand for: left and right. You want to look in the 4th row, where it says: Open the document again and you will see the raw code that defines how the document look like. Next open up the TextEdit preferences, switch to the tab Open and Save and check on the option Display RTF files as RTF code instead of formatted text. To see the effect directly in your document, open it and enable under the Format menu the setting Wrap to Page for your document.
Here's how you can change the margins in TextEdit to your favourite size, so that you can use, for example, the whole space on a sheet of paper when printing.įirst, save your document first as a Rich Text file (.rtf), if you have not already done this. There is already an old hint about this topic, but it doesn't really explain it very clearly, only in the comments.
