print mail (gnus)

print mail (gnus)

[henry atting]

How can I customize the gnus print command (`A P')? The problem is that
it prints the messages sort of 'with faces'. I have a grey background
and the default foreground color is goldenrod, so with my black/white
laser printer the result is a nearly unreadable text in faded grey. 

I gave muttprint a try, but muttprint tries to print the attachement as
well (which it cannot, hence a lot of wasted paper is the only result)

It works well if I move to the article buffer and print
with `pr-ps-buffer-print', which is okay for me but I think a single
command would be more convenient.

henry

Re: print mail (gnus)

[Lowell Gilbert]

henry atting <nspm_01@literaturlatenight.de> writes:

> How can I customize the gnus print command (`A P')? The problem is that
> it prints the messages sort of 'with faces'. I have a grey background
> and the default foreground color is goldenrod, so with my black/white
> laser printer the result is a nearly unreadable text in faded grey. 
>
> I gave muttprint a try, but muttprint tries to print the attachement as
> well (which it cannot, hence a lot of wasted paper is the only result)
>
> It works well if I move to the article buffer and print
> with `pr-ps-buffer-print', which is okay for me but I think a single
> command would be more convenient.

Well, you could always write a command that does exactly that.  
You could also set ps-print-color-p to nil, but that would lose you the
fonts as well.

I suppose you could defadvice the gnus-summary-print-article function
with something that switches to the *Article* buffer and changes the
background.

Re: print mail (gnus)

[henry atting]

Zitat - Lowell Gilbert * Mi Nov 12 2008 um 16:55 -

> henry atting <nspm_01@literaturlatenight.de> writes:
>
>> How can I customize the gnus print command (`A P')? The problem is that
>> it prints the messages sort of 'with faces'. I have a grey background
>> and the default foreground color is goldenrod, so with my black/white
>> laser printer the result is a nearly unreadable text in faded grey. 
>>
>> I gave muttprint a try, but muttprint tries to print the attachement as
>> well (which it cannot, hence a lot of wasted paper is the only result)
>>
>> It works well if I move to the article buffer and print
>> with `pr-ps-buffer-print', which is okay for me but I think a single
>> command would be more convenient.
>
> Well, you could always write a command that does exactly that.  
> You could also set ps-print-color-p to nil, but that would lose you the
> fonts as well.
>
> I suppose you could defadvice the gnus-summary-print-article function
> with something that switches to the *Article* buffer and changes the
> background.

I am afraid that would not work. I did something similiar: I can
switch to another, brighter color theme with `M-x set-mytheme'. It is a
quite simple black on white theme. But the printing command ignores the
new faces and the output looks exactly the same as with my default
theme.
I should have to restart emacs with changed face settings.

henry