Re: Basic WYSIWYG printing in GNU Emacs

[Jean Louis]

* Dov Grobgeld <dov.grobgeld@gmail.com> [2021-06-13 11:02]:
> I think you would get much better international support if you combine
> the emacs printing with my utf8-to-ps (or pdf or svg) program paps.
> See: https://github.com/dov/paps . paps support "Pango Markup" so if
> you convert emacs faces to pango markup, you can multi face and color
> output.
> 
> Thinking about it since emacs is gtk based these days, it has pango
> and cairo as implicit dependencies, so if these libraries were exposed
> through the emacs lisp api, it would be possible to write a
> replacement for paps in emacs. :-)

Such good idea.

I would like proper printing in Emacs, I guess that I have to research
the function `ps-mule-begin-job' to see how it converts faces to PS
first, to convert it to pango markup.


-- 
Jean

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