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From: smadi@rlgvax.UUCP (Smadi Paradise)
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Subject: Re: v17i080:  Fancy-printers for common languages.
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Keywords: pps slide
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Date: 8 Feb 89 20:37:56 GMT
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The Pps fancy printer for PostScript devices which has just been
posted in comp.sources.unix (Volume 17, Issue 80; Archive-name: pps).
Pps handles C, awk, sh, lisp, mail, PostScript and English; adding more
languages is simple.

Pps is almost as fast as plain text-to-PostScript filters, so some
people here use it daily for source-code listing.  Most of the work is
done by the printer: Unix just separates the input into tokens, using
different lex(1) programs for each language.

Slide does the same, but ``expands'' the output to fit over a full
page. This is useful for making overhead projection transparencies.

Both pps and slide run on Sun, Vax, Gould, CCI, RT and other BSD
machines; they used to cope with SVR2, but that was a long time ago.

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