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Re: Basic WYSIWYG printing in GNU Emacs
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Jean Louis |
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Re: Basic WYSIWYG printing in GNU Emacs |
Date: |
Sun, 13 Jun 2021 12:43:50 +0300 |
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Mutt/2.0.7+183 (3d24855) (2021-05-28) |
* Dov Grobgeld <dov.grobgeld@gmail.com> [2021-06-13 11:02]:
> I think you would get much better international support if you combine
> the emacs printing with my utf8-to-ps (or pdf or svg) program paps.
> See: https://github.com/dov/paps . paps support "Pango Markup" so if
> you convert emacs faces to pango markup, you can multi face and color
> output.
>
> Thinking about it since emacs is gtk based these days, it has pango
> and cairo as implicit dependencies, so if these libraries were exposed
> through the emacs lisp api, it would be possible to write a
> replacement for paps in emacs. :-)
Such good idea.
I would like proper printing in Emacs, I guess that I have to research
the function `ps-mule-begin-job' to see how it converts faces to PS
first, to convert it to pango markup.
--
Jean
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