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Re: ASCII to PS that respects ASCII Form Feed (Ctrl-L)
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Alain D D Williams |
Subject: |
Re: ASCII to PS that respects ASCII Form Feed (Ctrl-L) |
Date: |
Sun, 17 Apr 2022 22:27:49 +0100 |
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Mutt/1.10.1 (2018-07-13) |
On Sun, Apr 17, 2022 at 09:14:31PM +0200, Andrew Yu wrote:
> I wonder if there is a package for this purpose.
>
> I've been looking for a way to convert a plain text file into a
> PostScript file. The plain text file is hard wrapped and is hard
> page-breaked with ASCII Form Feeds, commonly represented as Control-L.
I use paps for this.
I have, in the past, used nenscript.
> The program MUST:
> * Be able to use a monospace font;
> * Break pages at Line Feeds.
>
> The program MUST NOT:
> * Treat anything other than form feeds and newlines specially;
> Groff is not suitable because of how it treats . and \.
> * Add borders or columns, or other fancy stuff.
>
> The program SHOULD:
> * Take standard input and give standard output;
> * Have an option to use a custom font;
> * Set text off the page's borders when a line is longer than the page
> width, rather than wrapping;
> * Set text off the bottom of the page when no Form Feed has been
> encountered and the text is higher than the page height.
>
> The program SHOULD NOT:
> * Add any margins;
> * Wrap text.
>
> SHOULD and SHOULD NOT are optional, but good to have / not have.
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