It will work just fine if the font is monospaced, like Courier.
This is often the case with enscript.
++ kevin
On Sun, May 19, 2002 at 11:45:54PM -0400, Joel Hammer wrote:
> Well, I don't see how reformatting the text document, even with a
> perl script, can solve the problem of justification, s
Well, I don't see how reformatting the text document, even with a
perl script, can solve the problem of justification, since that will
depend in part on the text font chosen, which perl may not know about.
The solution may lie in enscript itself. I will write the author of
enscript. That's one ama
Thanks for the pointers and the information. Unfortunately, I have to get back to my
day
job (even though is it Sunday). I will try out these ideas in a day or two.
I'll let you know how they work.
Joel
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Two comments :
In vim, you can use
gqG
on your file to reformat it into nice paragraphs eliminating the sed.
There is a rather nice perl module, Text::Autoformat, which will
do a lot of stuff, one of which is full justification, done
intelligently. It's not that hard to do full justification,
Here is what I am doing.
I create a text file with vi. Its structure is a bunch of lines, ending
with nl's. The paragraphs are demarcated by empty lines. This is the
same format as this letter you are reading.
To get a better looking postscript document, I feed the text file through
a sed script
What are you actually trying to do? I know a bit about text formatting and
PostScript, but I'm not clear on what your real goal is.
On Sat, 18 May 2002 18:57:57 -0700 "Kevin O'Gorman" wrote:
> There's nothing very simple about using Postscript directly; it's not
> actually designed for that, it
There's nothing very simple about using Postscript directly; it's not
actually designed for that, it seems.
You can indeed stretch the line with ashow, but be aware that this method
only looks acceptable for VERY small amounts of added space. As the
added amount gets bigger, you lose visual trac
I want to justify simple text files, such as are output by vi. It is
hard to believe it is so hard to do.
When you say keep adding spaces until the line if filled, do you mean
actually adding spaces to the string itself. Wouldn't that get you
words on the same line which were unevenly spaced?
That is a laborious process in Postscript proper. The primitives are there
to support it, but the real work is usually done by the application program
that emits the postscript file. This makes sense, because the application
knows how it wants it done, and there are a remarkable number of differ
Does anyone know how to produce justified text in a postscript document?
It sounds simple, but there is no reference to this option in enscript, and
the two postscript manuals I downloaded from the internet don't have the
word "justify" in them.
Any insight appreciated,
Joel
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