I want to add a line number to the corresponding line of texts (programming code) in Apple Pages. See attached image for the result I want. The number format, however, would have a period at the end of each number. Is it possible to remove this period? Appreciate the help. Thanks
MacBook Pro 13″, macOS 10.15
Pages was never designed to be a code editor with builtin line numbering, or syntax identification.
Pages, unlike MS Word, or LibreOffice Writer, does not offer a line numbering feature for body text. Although you can tell Pages to automatically identify a list entry (e.g. 1, 2,) you must enter each list line manually.
You can use the Terminal UNIX command nl to place line numbers on a clipboard instance of your Swift code which you can paste into Pages, though it will be monochrome:
man nl
nl -ba foo.swift | pbcopy
Unless you use really small font size, the line wrapping in Pages will disrupt the line numbering appearance:
Pages was never designed to be a code editor with builtin line numbering, or syntax identification.
Pages, unlike MS Word, or LibreOffice Writer, does not offer a line numbering feature for body text. Although you can tell Pages to automatically identify a list entry (e.g. 1, 2,) you must enter each list line manually.
You can use the Terminal UNIX command nl to place line numbers on a clipboard instance of your Swift code which you can paste into Pages, though it will be monochrome:
man nl
nl -ba foo.swift | pbcopy
Unless you use really small font size, the line wrapping in Pages will disrupt the line numbering appearance:
You might want to take a look at BBedit by Bare Bones Software. It has always had a very good reputation as a text editor for just this purpose.
Thanks again for the feedback. Appreciate the effort and the example you showed. The syntax highlighting is retained so I'm "almost" ok...the period just a little bother...Thanks!
Thanks for the feedback. I'm trying to simplify my workflow and just use Pages ...but you get to have this shortcomings...and the workflow may not be as simple as I want it to be...Cheers
Thanks for the feedback. I'm trying to simplify my workflow and just use Pages ...but you get to have this shortcomings...and the workflow may not be as simple as I want it to be...Cheers
That's so often the case.....
Best of luck.
Adding line number with no period (e.g. 1, 2, 3 instead of 1., 2., 3., )
