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General Purpose PostScript Generating Utility

Table of Contents

1. Introduction

1.1 Description
1.2 Reporting Bugs
1.3 a2ps Mailing List
1.4 Helping the Development

2. User's Guide

2.1 Purpose
2.2 How to print

2.2.1 Basics for Printing
2.2.2 Special Printers
2.2.3 Using Delegations
2.2.4 Printing Duplex
2.2.5 Checking the Defaults

2.3 Important parameters
2.4 Localizing
2.5 Interfacing with Other Programs

2.5.1 Interfacing With a Mailer
2.5.2 Netscape

3. Invoking a2ps

3.1 Command line options

3.1.1 Tasks Options
3.1.2 Global Options
3.1.3 Sheet Options
3.1.4 Page Options
3.1.5 Headings Options
3.1.6 Input Options
3.1.7 Pretty Printing Options
3.1.8 Output Options
3.1.9 PostScript Options

3.2 Escapes

3.2.1 Use of Escapes
3.2.2 General Structure of the Escapes
3.2.3 Available Escapes

4. Configuration Files

4.1 Including Configuration Files
4.2 Your Library Path
4.3 Your Default Options
4.4 Your Media
4.5 Your Printers
4.6 Your Shortcuts
4.7 Your PostScript magic number
4.8 Your Page Labels
4.9 Your Variables

4.9.1 Defining Variables
4.9.2 Predefined Variables

4.10 Your Delegations

4.10.1 Defining a Delegation
4.10.2 Guide Line for Delegations
4.10.3 Predefined Delegations

4.11 Your Internal Details

5. Library Files

5.1 Documentation Format
5.2 Map Files
5.3 Font Files

5.3.1 Fonts Map File
5.3.2 Fonts Description Files
5.3.3 Adding More Font Support

5.4 Style Sheet Files

6. Encodings

6.1 What is an Encoding
6.2 Encoding Files

6.2.1 Encoding Map File
6.2.2 Encoding Description Files
6.2.3 Some Encodings

7. Pretty Printing

7.1 Syntactic limits
7.2 Known Style Sheets
7.3 Type Setting Style Sheets

7.3.1 Symbol
7.3.2 PreScript

7.3.2.1 Syntax
7.3.2.2 PreScript Commands
7.3.2.3 Examples

7.3.3 PreTeX

7.3.3.1 Special characters
7.3.3.2 PreTeX Commands
7.3.3.3 Differences with LaTeX

7.3.4 TeXScript

7.4 Faces
7.5 Style Sheets Semantics

7.5.1 Name and key
7.5.2 Comments
7.5.3 Alphabets
7.5.4 Case sensitivity
7.5.5 P-Rules
7.5.6 Sequences
7.5.7 Optional entries

7.6 Style Sheets Implementation

7.6.1 A Bit of Syntax
7.6.2 Style Sheet Header
7.6.3 Syntax of the Words
7.6.4 Inheriting from Other Style Sheets
7.6.5 Syntax for the P-Rules
7.6.6 Declaring the keywords and the operators
7.6.7 Declaring the sequences
7.6.8 Checking a Style Sheet

7.7 A Tutorial on Style Sheets

7.7.1 Example and syntax
7.7.2 Implementation
7.7.3 The Entry in `sheets.map'
7.7.4 More Sophisticated Rules
7.7.5 Guide Line for Distributed Style Sheets

8. PostScript

8.1 Foreword: Good and Bad PostScript
8.2 Page Device Options
8.3 Statusdict Options
8.4 Colors in PostScript
8.5 a2ps PostScript Files
8.6 Designing PostScript Prologues

8.6.1 Definition of the faces
8.6.2 Prologue File Format
8.6.3 A step by step example

9. Contributions

9.1 card

9.1.1 Invoking card
9.1.2 Caution when Using card

9.2 fixps

9.2.1 Invoking fixps

9.3 fixnt

9.3.1 Invoking fixnt

9.4 pdiff

9.4.1 Invoking pdiff

9.5 psmandup

9.5.1 Invoking psmandup

9.6 psset

9.6.1 Invoking psset

10. Frequently asked questions

10.1 Why Does...?

10.1.1 Why Does it Print Nothing?
10.1.2 Why Does it Print in Simplex?
10.1.3 Why Does it Print in Duplex?
10.1.4 Why Does it Not Fit on the Paper?
10.1.5 Why Does it Print Junk?
10.1.6 Why Does it Say my File is Binary?
10.1.7 Why Does it Refuse to Change the Font Size

10.2 How Can I ...?

10.2.1 How Can I Leave Room for Binding?
10.2.2 How Can I Print stdin?
10.2.3 How Can I Change the Fonts?
10.2.4 How Can I Simulate the Old Option `-b'?
10.2.5 How Can I Pass Options to `lpr'
10.2.6 How Can I Print on Non PostScript Printers?
10.2.7 How Can I Print Man Pages with Underlines

10.3 Please tell me...

10.3.1 Is a2ps Y2K compliant?
10.3.2 Why Have the Options Changed?
10.3.3 Why not having used yacc and such

A. Glossary
B. Genesis

B.1 History
B.2 Thanks
B.3 Translators

C. Copying
Concept Index