On 2013-11-25, at 11:04, Mark Boonie wrote: > Does anyone have a stage that will take an input stream with > carriage-control characters in column 1 and produce an output stream that > is more of a visual representation of what the output would look like if it > were printed? Ideally I'd like it to handle both ASA and machine carriage > controls, and allow the user to specify the number of lines on an output > page. > I've done this in various languages: Pascal, Rexx, even PostScript. If I were doing it in Pipelines, I'd write a procedural Rexx stage because that's what I'm more familiar with.
How would you expect to handle Skip to Channel 1? Issue blank lines until the specified page depth? (In PostScript I use "showpage".) -- gil
