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From: David De La Harpe Golden <david@harpegolden.net>
To: Emacs developers <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Printing
Date: Thu, 02 Apr 2009 01:09:56 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <49D40254.1000401@harpegolden.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <49D3B88A.4000809@harpegolden.net>

David De La Harpe Golden wrote:

> Since emacs is currently a "toolkit unto itself" for the most part, as 
> Stefan has already pointed out, it kind of makes sense for it to 
> generate its own postscript.  Though maybe just saving out and 
> "enscript"ing text files might currently work about as well...
> 

Hey, just found enscript homepage itself now recommends the "paps"
(giggle) command line tool for postscript printing of unicode text files.

http://paps.sourceforge.net/

See scans of me printing emacs hello with emacs' ps-print and
through paps - spot the difference:

http://harpegolden.net/misc/emacs-paps/emacs-hello-psprint.jpg
http://harpegolden.net/misc/emacs-paps/emacs-hello-paps.jpg

Yes, the paps output isn't _perfect_ (but all I did was saved
HELLO as utf-8 and fed it to paps), but it's already far, far better
- seeing as it supports non-latin1 stuff at all and all.

Lennart Borgman wrote:
  > Of course such work should be coordinated with what is needed on
  > GNU/Linux. (Something for Google Summer of Code?)

Turns out paps also apparently supports pango's small text formatting
markup language with the --markup flag:

http://library.gnome.org/devel/pango/unstable/PangoMarkupFormat.html

- if emacs could be persuaded to output such marked-up utf-8 text to be
filtered through paps, that might be a *very* short route to semidecent
printing, at least on GNU/linux and similar platforms.

Of course paps is using pango for its rendering - I guess Stefan's
aforementioned "real gtk" emacs port is a long-term solution for
free platforms, using the whole gtk+/cairo/pango stack (I believe
libm17n and libotf are also involved as a possible pango "shaper", but
don't really understand the whole area myself at present...) for a
unified vector-based screen GUI and print layer. Whole lot of work though.

But making emacs output utf-8 text marked up with pango markup language 
(for  replicating font-locking for quasi-wysiwig) to be fed through paps 
might be more at GSoC project scale ? Might even be too small...











  parent reply	other threads:[~2009-04-02  0:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 119+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-04-01 17:22 Printing grischka
2009-04-01 18:55 ` Printing David De La Harpe Golden
2009-04-01 18:58   ` Printing David De La Harpe Golden
2009-04-01 20:51   ` Printing grischka
2009-04-01 21:19   ` Printing Lennart Borgman
2009-04-02  0:09   ` David De La Harpe Golden [this message]
2009-04-01 23:32 ` Printing Stefan Monnier
2009-04-02  2:33   ` Printing grischka
2009-04-02  3:05     ` Printing Samuel Bronson
2009-04-02 13:41       ` Printing grischka
2009-04-02 13:31     ` Printing Stefan Monnier
2009-04-02 18:39       ` Printing grischka
2009-04-02 18:53         ` Printing Stefan Monnier
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2022-12-17 12:31 printing Gottfried
2022-12-17 13:09 ` printing tomas
2022-12-14 16:38 wie kann ich Emacs so einstellen, dass ich drucken kann Gottfried
2022-12-14 17:27 ` Philip Kaludercic
2022-12-16 15:27   ` printing Gottfried
2022-12-16 22:26     ` printing Michael Heerdegen
2022-12-17  6:29       ` printing tomas
2022-12-17  7:41         ` printing Emanuel Berg
2022-12-17 13:48     ` printing Gottfried
2022-12-17 16:30       ` printing tomas
2016-03-03 14:35 Printing Sharon Kimble
2016-03-03 20:22 ` Printing tomas
2016-03-05 13:40 ` Printing Robert Thorpe
2009-03-28 10:31 Printing Андрей Парамонов
2009-03-28 14:56 ` Printing Jan Djärv
2009-03-31  2:13   ` Printing YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu
2009-04-02  9:39     ` Printing YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu
2009-04-04  2:44       ` Printing YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu
2009-04-04  6:54         ` Printing Lennart Borgman
2009-04-04  7:25           ` Printing YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu
2009-04-04  9:40         ` Printing Leo
2009-04-04 22:00         ` Printing Richard M Stallman
2009-04-05  1:07           ` Printing YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu
2009-04-06  8:03         ` Printing Kenichi Handa
2009-04-06  8:45           ` Printing YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu
2009-04-06 11:47             ` Printing Kenichi Handa
2009-04-06 23:47               ` Printing YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu
2009-04-07  1:01                 ` Printing Kenichi Handa
2009-04-07  1:14                   ` Printing YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu
2009-04-07  9:46         ` Printing YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu
2009-04-08  1:33           ` Printing Kenichi Handa
2009-05-01 23:30             ` Printing YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu
2009-04-19 10:21           ` Printing YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu
2012-05-05  3:06             ` Printing Stefan Monnier
2012-05-07  3:38               ` Printing YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu
2012-05-07 11:25                 ` Printing Lennart Borgman
2012-05-08  1:04                   ` Printing YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu
2012-05-08  1:25                     ` Printing Lennart Borgman
2012-05-08  2:15                       ` Printing YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu
2012-05-08 10:59                         ` Printing Lennart Borgman
2012-05-09 14:50                   ` Printing Jason Rumney
2012-05-09 14:58                     ` Printing Lennart Borgman
2012-05-07 12:46                 ` Printing Stefan Monnier
2012-05-07 13:07                   ` Printing joakim
2012-05-07 17:20                   ` Printing Simon Leinen
2012-05-08  1:11                     ` Printing YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu
2009-03-28 15:46 ` Printing Michael Ekstrand
2009-03-28 18:37 ` Printing Stefan Monnier
2009-03-28 20:52   ` Printing Андрей Парамонов
2009-03-30 13:06     ` Printing Michael Ekstrand
2009-03-30 15:24       ` Printing Stefan Monnier
2009-03-30 18:38         ` Printing Eli Zaretskii
2009-03-31  1:56           ` Printing Stefan Monnier
2009-03-31  3:15             ` Printing Eli Zaretskii
2009-04-01  0:52               ` Printing Stefan Monnier
2009-04-01  3:14                 ` Printing Eli Zaretskii
2009-04-01  4:17                   ` Printing Miles Bader
2009-04-01 17:53                     ` Printing Eli Zaretskii
2009-04-01  4:24                   ` Printing Jason Rumney
2009-04-01 17:56                     ` Printing Eli Zaretskii
2009-04-01  8:11                   ` Printing Stephen J. Turnbull
2009-04-01 14:36                   ` Printing Stefan Monnier
2009-04-01 18:16                     ` Printing Eli Zaretskii
2009-04-01 23:42                       ` Printing Stefan Monnier
2009-04-02 13:02                       ` Printing Richard M Stallman
2009-04-02 19:37                         ` Printing Eli Zaretskii
2009-04-02 10:08                   ` Printing tomas
2009-04-02 10:52                     ` Printing Lennart Borgman
2009-04-02 11:51                       ` Printing tomas
2009-04-02 11:49                         ` Printing Lennart Borgman
2009-04-02 13:37                           ` Printing Stefan Monnier
2009-04-02 13:47                             ` Printing Óscar Fuentes
2009-04-02 13:55                               ` Printing Samuel Bronson
2009-04-02 14:24                                 ` Printing Óscar Fuentes
2009-04-02 14:34                                   ` Printing Lennart Borgman
2009-04-02 14:00                             ` Printing Lennart Borgman
2009-04-02 16:15                               ` Printing Stefan Monnier
2009-04-02 16:47                                 ` Printing Reiner Steib
2009-04-02 19:44                                 ` Printing Eli Zaretskii
2009-04-03  0:43                                   ` Printing Stefan Monnier
2009-04-02 20:56                                 ` Printing Lennart Borgman
2009-04-04  0:00                                   ` Printing Lennart Borgman
2009-04-04  0:36                                     ` Printing Stefan Monnier
2009-04-04  0:45                                       ` Printing Lennart Borgman
2009-04-04  1:05                                         ` Printing Óscar Fuentes
2009-04-04  6:52                                           ` Printing Lennart Borgman
2009-04-04  8:57                                     ` Printing Eli Zaretskii
2009-04-04  9:22                                       ` Printing Lennart Borgman
2009-04-04  9:49                                         ` Printing Eli Zaretskii
2009-03-28 20:30 ` Printing James Cloos
2009-03-29  2:15 ` Printing Richard M Stallman
2009-03-29  3:20   ` Printing Eli Zaretskii
2009-03-30  1:17     ` Printing Richard M Stallman
2009-03-30  3:10       ` Printing Eli Zaretskii
2009-03-30  6:36         ` Printing Lennart Borgman
2009-03-30 18:41           ` Printing Eli Zaretskii
2009-03-30 19:04             ` Printing Lennart Borgman
2009-03-30 20:48               ` Printing Eli Zaretskii
2009-03-30 20:53                 ` Printing Lennart Borgman
2009-03-30 20:59                   ` Printing Eli Zaretskii
2009-03-30 21:27                     ` Printing Lennart Borgman
2009-03-31  3:19                       ` Printing Eli Zaretskii
2009-03-30 21:46                   ` Printing Óscar Fuentes
2009-03-30 21:50         ` Printing Richard M Stallman
2009-03-31  3:18           ` Printing Eli Zaretskii
2009-03-31 19:14             ` Printing Richard M Stallman
2009-03-30 18:03   ` Printing Андрей Парамонов
2003-03-18 21:18 printing Kevin Reeder

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