Bug#288769: Bug#180236: a2ps is not unicode ready
Thanks for volunteering, Adrian.
> - I don't know anything lisp nor about postscript, so I'd need to work
> together closely with you (Juliusz) when bugs are discovered.
That will be a pleasure.
> - I don't know anything about font handling in Debian, so again it'd
> certainly be a learning experience.
I'd be quite willing to implement ad hoc code for interacting with
either fontconfig or defoma in Cedilla, but I need a clear specificiation.
(For now, available fonts are hard-wired in /etc/cedilla-config.lisp.)
> Disclaimer #2: I haven't looked at cedilla at all so far - I'm writing this
> in the assumption that it really is intended to do more or less the same as
> the other ascii-to-ps renderers that are out there, but in a better way.
The one thing you should be aware of is that Cedilla currently is a
*plain text* formatter. No bold and italic. The only concession to
fun stuff is support for footers/headers and page numbers.
Oh, and it does Roman numbers. Computation of the phase of the moon
is planned for a future version ;-)
A good source if you're stuck is the SuSE RPM, by Mike Harris. It's
linked from the Cedilla web page.
Juliusz
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