Re: Enscript and unicode, was Re: is a2ps broken?

2015-09-26 Thread David Wright
Quoting rlhar...@oplink.net (rlhar...@oplink.net): > On Fri, September 25, 2015 11:34 pm, David Wright wrote: > > The OP thanked me for my first post which suggested what might cause > > problems in a2ps, but AFAICT gave no feedback on whether it was any help. > > Presumably not, hence his move to

Re: Enscript and unicode, was Re: is a2ps broken?

2015-09-25 Thread rlharris
On Fri, September 25, 2015 11:34 pm, David Wright wrote: > The OP thanked me for my first post which suggested what might cause > problems in a2ps, but AFAICT gave no feedback on whether it was any help. > Presumably not, hence his move to enscript. ... > He appears not to be interested in unicode

Re: Enscript and unicode, was Re: is a2ps broken?

2015-09-25 Thread David Wright
Quoting Vincent Lefevre (vinc...@vinc17.net): > On 2015-09-16 14:01:40 -0500, David Wright wrote: > > It doesn't crash, and the frames you have specified don't get bumped > > into AFAICT, but a test line of unicode with: > > > > Pound £ Euro € Divide ÷ > > > > gives me: > > > > Pound £ Euro â\2

Re: Enscript and unicode, was Re: is a2ps broken?

2015-09-25 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2015-09-16 14:01:40 -0500, David Wright wrote: > It doesn't crash, and the frames you have specified don't get bumped > into AFAICT, but a test line of unicode with: > > Pound £ Euro € Divide ÷ > > gives me: > > Pound £ Euro â\202¬ Divide ÷ > > There'a a good testpage to try at > http://ww

Enscript and unicode, was Re: is a2ps broken?

2015-09-16 Thread David Wright
Quoting rlhar...@oplink.net (rlhar...@oplink.net): > > On Thu, September 3, 2015 10:28 am, David Wright wrote: > > > > Personally, a2ps has been broken for years because it doesn't handle > > unicode. > > I found in the Debian archive the package "enscript", which appears to > provide (at least fo

Re: is a2ps broken?

2015-09-15 Thread rlharris
> On Thu, September 3, 2015 10:28 am, David Wright wrote: > > Personally, a2ps has been broken for years because it doesn't handle > unicode. I found in the Debian archive the package "enscript", which appears to provide (at least for my needs) the functionality of "a2ps"; and enscript handles uni

Re: is a2ps broken?

2015-09-03 Thread rlharris
On Thu, September 3, 2015 10:28 am, David Wright wrote: > Personally, a2ps has been broken for years because it doesn't handle > unicode. Fooey on unicode, then. I need a2ps; but I lived for years without unicode. > Quoting rlhar...@oplink.net (rlhar...@oplink.net): > >> With Lenny and a HP4100

Re: is a2ps broken?

2015-09-03 Thread David Wright
Personally, a2ps has been broken for years because it doesn't handle unicode. Quoting rlhar...@oplink.net (rlhar...@oplink.net): > With Lenny and a HP4100 PostScript printer, a two-pages-per-sheet spread > printed by a2ps is cut off on both the left and the right. Left and right wrt the sheet of

is a2ps broken?

2015-09-03 Thread rlharris
With Lenny and a HP4100 PostScript printer, a two-pages-per-sheet spread printed by a2ps is cut off on both the left and the right. A search with google reveals that a problem of this sort arose ten or twelve years ago, but I see no current reports. Papersize is configured for "letter" 8.5 x 11 i

a2ps broken

2004-06-04 Thread William Ballard
Is anybody successfully using the newest a2ps in sid? I've had it on hold at 4.13b-20.1 since 8/24/2003. There have been three releases since then, but the newest one (1:4.13b-2) won't print to the "display" printer: $ ls | a2ps -P display [stdin (plain): 1 page on 1 sheet] lp: unable to print f