formatted output from lpr and lp with emacs

formatted output from lpr and lp with emacs

[Wm. G. McGrath]

Hi all,

I'm having trouble getting emacs to produce formatted output.
I'm not sure that it's even an emacs problem.
I can get formatted output from a console by using:
pr -l62 -F -o10 filename.txt | lpr
This will give me indented text from a Lexmark Optra S printer.
But lpr -i 10 -w60 -p will not.

Under emacs I have set up lpr-switches to ("-i10" "-w60" "-p")
These options show up correctly under M-x list-options

However the output from M-x lpr-buffer remains unformatted.
How do I format with pr under emacs - or is that the problem?

Hoping for clue,


            bill

Re: formatted output from lpr and lp with emacs

[Jesper Harder]

"Wm. G. McGrath" <wgm@vcn.bc.ca> writes:

> I'm having trouble getting emacs to produce formatted output.
> I'm not sure that it's even an emacs problem.
> I can get formatted output from a console by using:
> pr -l62 -F -o10 filename.txt | lpr
> This will give me indented text from a Lexmark Optra S printer.
> But lpr -i 10 -w60 -p will not.
>
> Under emacs I have set up lpr-switches to ("-i10" "-w60" "-p")
> These options show up correctly under M-x list-options
>
> However the output from M-x lpr-buffer remains unformatted.
> How do I format with pr under emacs - or is that the problem?

It'll work if you put the swithces for 'pr' in lpr-page-header-switches,
rather than lpr-swithces, i.e.

       (setq lpr-page-header-switches '("-F" "-l62" "-o10"))