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Thank you very much aplaice for your comprehensive and thoughtful answer. You have given me a lot to work with.

Ptolemy
– Ptolemy

2018-06-21 21:58:17 +00:00
Commented Jun 21, 2018 at 21:58
In the mean time, as a temporary workaround, I have disabled enriched-mode (it does strange things in combination with Markdown) and started using Markdown in a plain text file. I then use Pandoc to convert to HTML. This turns out to be a good way to proof read the work before committing it to the more permanent PDF format.

Ptolemy
– Ptolemy

2018-06-21 21:58:55 +00:00
Commented Jun 21, 2018 at 21:58
I can then use the "Export as PDF" option in Safari to create a PDF. Or, if I want page numbers, I can print it and us the "Save as PDF" option. There is also a third option built into OS X (I'm still using El Capitan) called "cupsfilter" which can convert an HTML file to PDF.

Ptolemy
– Ptolemy

2018-06-21 21:59:42 +00:00
Commented Jun 21, 2018 at 21:59
None of the above is a perfect solutions but all have great potential. One of the problems is that the HTML margins are not transferred to the PDF. I'm looking into Print CSS to deal with that. CSS is also the way I handle margins in the HTML file. One could conceivably automate the whole process and apply a key combination to it; either as a macro or perhaps a bit of elisp. I don't know how to do that as of now but, hey, I'm retired.

Ptolemy
– Ptolemy

2018-06-21 22:00:45 +00:00
Commented Jun 21, 2018 at 22:00
@aplaice: Thanks a million for a great, clean,concise defun that works very well for me.

phs
– phs

2020-09-21 11:17:33 +00:00
Commented Sep 21, 2020 at 11:17

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