From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Stephen J. Turnbull" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Printing Date: Wed, 01 Apr 2009 17:11:07 +0900 Message-ID: <87hc18vlno.fsf@xemacs.org> References: <5f0660120903280331y780c80b7i57a8115dc4b029eb@mail.gmail.com> <5f0660120903281352v5d7ab83cy44fcff3cbf4581cb@mail.gmail.com> <87ljqnkvn9.fsf@jehiel.elehack.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1238573179 24696 80.91.229.12 (1 Apr 2009 08:06:19 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 1 Apr 2009 08:06:19 +0000 (UTC) Cc: michael@elehack.net, Stefan Monnier , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Apr 01 10:07:36 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1LovTp-0005L5-S4 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 01 Apr 2009 10:07:26 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:52003 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LovSS-0000kd-1X for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 01 Apr 2009 04:06:00 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LovRc-0000Fm-Dq for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 01 Apr 2009 04:05:08 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LovRW-0000DC-BD for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 01 Apr 2009 04:05:06 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=37752 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LovRW-0000D6-2W for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 01 Apr 2009 04:05:02 -0400 Original-Received: from mtps01.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp ([130.158.97.223]:43022) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LovRT-0003fp-UM; Wed, 01 Apr 2009 04:05:00 -0400 Original-Received: from uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp [130.158.99.156]) by mtps01.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (Postfix) with ESMTP id DF6A71535AE; Wed, 1 Apr 2009 17:04:49 +0900 (JST) Original-Received: by uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (Postfix, from userid 1000) id EB95C11FCD5; Wed, 1 Apr 2009 17:11:07 +0900 (JST) In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: VM 8.0.12-devo-585 under 21.5 (beta28) "fuki" 83e35df20028+ XEmacs Lucid (x86_64-unknown-linux) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:109961 Archived-At: Eli Zaretskii writes: > The way every modern platform does that: through a printer API, > whereby you select fonts and layout, then render text to some device, > and the text gets printed to the printer you select. Since Emacs > already knows how to render text, it shouldn't be too hard to teach it > do so to something other than a screen. FWIW, XEmacs has an msprinter device for exactly this purpose. AFAIK, our Windows users are mostly satisfied with printing per se, although our printer config dialog seems rife with nasty regressions. :-(