i've always used an ancient version of a2ps for this, ported to plan 9 by fors...@terzerima.net. this does almost everything i want (in particular two-column landscape mode) with the exception that it doesn't grok utf-8. i'm sure charles will send you a copy if you wish.
the current gnu version is likely to be a little harder to port :-) On 7 September 2010 22:00, Rudolf Sykora <rudolf.syk...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello, > > I want to 'print' the 'page' program, i.e. put /sys/src/cmd/page/* on paper. > I want different files start on new pages, with the header of every > page being the file name and the page. > For this the command > a=`{ls} pr $a | lp -dstdout > toprint.ps > is almost ok. > That 'almost' is in the fact that long lines get truncated, which is > highly undesirable. > fmt -j > could help, but it also replaces spaces and tabs by a single space, again bad. > (btw. why > fmt <>afile > doesn't work?) > > So how? > Can anybody help? (I mean, is there a one-liner?) > Thank you! > Ruda > >