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This is the version 4.6 of a2ps, a program to format an ASCII file for
printing in a postscript printer. As the copyright indicates, this
distribution can be freely redistributed.
Initial version was a shell program written by evan@csli (Evan
Kirshenbaum). It was very slow and contained many bugs. A new version
was written in C by Miguel SANTANA for improve speed execution and
portability. Many new features and improvements have been added since
this first version. Many contributions (changes, fixes, ideas) were
done by a2ps users in order to improve it. From the latest known
version from M. Santana (4.3), Emmanuel Briot implemented bold faces
for keywords in ada, c and c++. Starting from this point, remodeling
completely the style description and handling for the various
languages, E. Briot and A. Demaille built this version, fully
compatible with version 4.3.
Some notes on the distribution:
Most of the work for the installation is done by ./configure.
See INSTALL for instructions.
Some choices are to make, and to give to ./configure
--disable-A4
if you want US letter as standard sheet
--disable-ISOLatin1
if you want only ASCII as default
--disable_auto
if you don't want a2ps to guess the style sheet to
use by default. Its guess is based on file suffix.
If disable, default is to print is plain style
--enable-print-default
if you want that default output is to printer
instead of stdout
--enable-1sided=OPT
OPT is the option to give the the print service
to get single sided prints
--enable-2sided=OPT
Same as previous, but for double sided prints. This option
is required if you expect a2ps to have double-sided
capabilities. Here, I use
--enable-2sided=-odouble
--disable-2-sided
if you don't want that default behaviour is to print
double-sided
a2ps has been successfully ported to Solaris, SunOS, Linux, HP-UX.
It is even used as a filter for print services.
a2ps *had* been successfully MSDOS.
Now it's up to you to tell us whether it is still portable :)
The a2ps distribution consists of the following files:
README This message
INSTALL Information on the installation process
TODO Some things to be done
configure A shell script that helps the installation
Makefile.in config.h.in configure.in
Everything about configuring
a2ps.h global typedefs, vars, defines etc.
a2ps.c main routine and interface with user
style.[ch] style sheets for each languages
styles.c.in a precursor of styles.c
This is the file you should work on if you
want to specify new languages. Needs GNU m4.
afm.[ch] metric info on postscript fonts
buffer.[ch] input and parsing routines
postscript.[ch] routines for output in postscript
report.[ch] routines related to option -W
a2ps.man a troff manual (man file)
Please send problems and feedback to:
Akim Demaille (demaille@inf.enst.fr)
Emmanuel Briot (ebr@drce.matra-com.fr)
PS(um): if you're happy with a2ps, or just if you installed it, please
let_us_know! We would be so happy :).