How can a Page Break be entered in gedit?

I don't think its possible. You could always type your text in gedit, then add the breaks in Libreoffice.

Gedit is a simple text editor its not intended to be a word processor in any way. I agree with Andrew I don't think its possible.

I suggest using a Word processor such as Writer in Libreoffice.

Thank you both for the reply - I appreciate your efforts :)

Mostly the question arose from the need to include the instruction in the bit of C++ being compiled on the Linux box which would result in the lengthy text file ultimately produced when the command was run to be broken into pages.

Thanks anyway.

Kelly

If you enter an ASCII form-feed (Character 0x14) into the source file it will be ignored by the compiler and when printed will throw new page (page break). I do not know how you can enter this in gedit though.

I was easily able to insert an 0x0c (form feed) or an 0x14 (device control 4) character with gedit. I opened the character map utility and did a copy of the desired character. Then in gedit I did a control-v paste. The special character displays
and prints in gedit as a weird little character icon and does not give the desired form feed. When I open the file with hexedit, I can verify that a single byte 0x0c was inserted in the file. When I open the file in Abiword, the 0x0c gives the desired form feed on the displayed and printed page. The 0x14 displays as a '?'. So it you were after a page break directly in gedit where you have context/keyword sensitive color etc, this is no help. I you want the page break only on the printed page, this is a lame but effective workaround.