a2ps, version 4.8.4

ASCII to PostScript converter, and pretty-printer

Edition 4.8.4, 24 June 1997

• Introduction
  • Description
  • Vocabulary
• User Guide
  • Purpose
  • How to print
  • Important parameters
  • Localizing
  • Interfacing with other programs
    • elm
    • pine
• Invocation
  • Command line options
    • Global behavior
    • Sheets
    • Pages
    • Headers
    • Input
    • Output
    • Pretty printing
  • Meta sequences
  • Page device options
  • Statusdict options
  • Library files
  • Exit status
• Pretty printing
  • Syntactic limits
  • Automatic style
  • Known languages
  • Definition of the style sheets
    • Name and abbreviations
    • Alphabets
    • Keywords and regular symbols
    • Special symbols
    • Sequences
    • Escapes and verbatims
    • Case sensitivity
  • Writing new style sheets
• PreScript
  • Syntax
  • PreScript commands
    • Structure commands
    • Printed symbols
    • Special characters
    • Quotation
  • Differences with LaTeX
    • LaTeX commands ignored in PreScript
    • Commands available in PreScript but not in LaTeX
  • Examples
• Customizing a2ps
  • Configuration files
    • Your default options
    • Your guess rules
    • Your printers
    • Your shortcuts
    • Your PostScript magic number
  • Designing prologues
    • a2ps faces
    • Definition of the faces
    • Colors in PostScript
    • A step by step example
• Various
  • Non PostScript printers
    • From Clayton Weaver
    • From Pierre Juillot
    • These tips in a2ps
  • Frequently asked questions
    • Printing goes beyond the frame of the paper
    • Helping on the translation
    • Why not having used yacc and such
    • Man pages
    • Can I change the base font
  • What next?
    • EPSF
    • Spelling checking, syntax fixing.
• Genesis
  • History
  • Thanks
• Copying
• Concept Index