Re: ascii formatting package
thanks for the suggestion, HH! i believe that the perl option is better
for me, text process the ascii doc via perl...
sincerely,
~robt
Harry Henry Gebel wrote:
>
> On Thu, Jun 07, 2001 at 06:39:22PM -0700, Robert L. Yelvington wrote:
> > can anyone suggest a good package to format ascii docs to be converted
> > to pdf?
>
> > what i am looking for is something that can outline blocks of text with
> > boxes, selectively shade lines or single words as wells bold, italicize,
> > underline text, etc.
>
> > i have looked into enscript...but can't figure out how to make it do
> > what I want it to do(YET!!!!)...
>
> > the formatting has got to be done on the fly, from cron for instance and
> > I guess I could use standard
> > PCL or PS and write it myself, but am hoping that there's a simpler (and
> > less time consuming) way to do this...
>
> If you adopted formatting guidelines for the ascii text (for example, one
> blank line is a paragraph, two is a section, three is a chapter, text after
> an underscore is underlined, etc.) it wouldn't be too hard to write a
> script in Python or Perl to convert it to docbook; the docbook could then
> be converted to pdf using any of several tools; alternatively there is a
> Python library that can generate PDF files directly, so you could write a
> Python script to generate the PDF directly from the ascii text.
>
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