Juliusz Chroboczek wrote on 2002-12-10 19:58 UTC:
> http://www.pps.jussieu.fr/~jch/software/cedilla/
>
>   - support for page headers/footers (including page numbering);
>   - support for n-up printing;
>   - support for drawing frames around the output, in case you cannot
>     find it on the page;
>   - support for prettyfication using a2ps' style sheets.

Certainly most desireable would be

  - headers and footers with configurable style and information such
    as filename, date/time, user name, page number, indicator for
    this being the last page

  - n-up and landscape

  - proper line wrapping (choice of wrapping indicator for formatted
    files like emacs does or at word boundaries and without indicator
    for unformatted/flowed files like Word does) and/or automatic
    font size scaling based on maximum line length (would of course
    require 2 passes over the file)

  - perhaps even support for some of the ISO 6429 SGR ESC sequences
    such as bold, underline or italics, especially since groff supports
    these now

  - make sure it does by default the right thing when printing RFCs
    in 2-up and 4-up mode

  - have a command line option that dumps the currently properly supported
    Unicode repertoire to stdout (just one 4+ digit Unicode hex
    number per line)

I guess, the above would turn cedilla into a formatter that I would
recommend widely as a general replacement for a2ps.

I personally don't care much about the frames of a2ps or any further
prettification, but tastes differ.

Markus

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