a2ps, version 4.8.4

ASCII to PostScript converter, and pretty-printer

Edition 4.8.4, 24 June 1997

• 1 Introduction
  • 1.1 Description
  • 1.2 Vocabulary
• 2 User Guide
  • 2.1 Purpose
  • 2.2 How to print
  • 2.3 Important parameters
  • 2.4 Localizing
  • 2.5 Interfacing with other programs
    • 2.5.1 elm
    • 2.5.2 pine
• 3 Invocation
  • 3.1 Command line options
    • 3.1.1 Global behavior
    • 3.1.2 Sheets
    • 3.1.3 Pages
    • 3.1.4 Headers
    • 3.1.5 Input
    • 3.1.6 Output
    • 3.1.7 Pretty printing
  • 3.2 Meta sequences
  • 3.3 Page device options
  • 3.4 Statusdict options
  • 3.5 Library files
  • 3.6 Exit status
• 4 Pretty printing
  • 4.1 Syntactic limits
  • 4.2 Automatic style
  • 4.3 Known languages
  • 4.4 Definition of the style sheets
    • 4.4.1 Name and abbreviations
    • 4.4.2 Alphabets
    • 4.4.3 Keywords and regular symbols
    • 4.4.4 Special symbols
    • 4.4.5 Sequences
    • 4.4.6 Escapes and verbatims
    • 4.4.7 Case sensitivity
  • 4.5 Writing new style sheets
• 5 PreScript
  • 5.1 Syntax
  • 5.2 PreScript commands
    • 5.2.1 Structure commands
    • 5.2.2 Printed symbols
    • 5.2.3 Special characters
    • 5.2.4 Quotation
  • 5.3 Differences with LaTeX
    • 5.3.1 LaTeX commands ignored in PreScript
    • 5.3.2 Commands available in PreScript but not in LaTeX
  • 5.4 Examples
• 6 Customizing a2ps
  • 6.1 Configuration files
    • 6.1.1 Your default options
    • 6.1.2 Your guess rules
    • 6.1.3 Your printers
    • 6.1.4 Your shortcuts
    • 6.1.5 Your PostScript magic number
  • 6.2 Designing prologues
    • 6.2.1 a2ps faces
    • 6.2.2 Definition of the faces
    • 6.2.3 Colors in PostScript
    • 6.2.4 A step by step example
• 7 Various
  • 7.1 Non PostScript printers
    • 7.1.1 From Clayton Weaver
    • 7.1.2 From Pierre Juillot
    • 7.1.3 These tips in a2ps
  • 7.2 Frequently asked questions
    • 7.2.1 Printing goes beyond the frame of the paper
    • 7.2.2 Helping on the translation
    • 7.2.3 Why not having used yacc and such
    • 7.2.4 Man pages
    • 7.2.5 Can I change the base font
  • 7.3 What next?
    • 7.3.1 EPSF
    • 7.3.2 Spelling checking, syntax fixing.
• A Genesis
  • 7.4 History
  • 7.5 Thanks
• B Copying
• Concept Index

This document was generated on 1 August 1997 using the texi2html translator version 1.51.