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On Mon 28 Dec 2020 at 10:26, Jean Louis <bugs@gnu.support> wrote:
> You can open any file and M-x enriched-mode, and then

Thanks, I'll have a look at your suggestions.

> Emacs has already good printing solution. And I get easily PDF
> files. Now how would your solution be useful?

emacs-pdf is written in pure elisp and requires no external
dependencies.

Anything else I have seen requires huge dependencies and painful
configuration (postscript, (la)tex, pandoc).