Re: Need help restoring an old feature

[Michael Loßin <phallobst@xxxxxx>]

On 23-Feb-02 James B. Hiller wrote:
> Hmmm.  Well, then a couple questions:
> 
> a.  If you can tell me where/how to get versions of apsfilter between
> 5.2.0 and 7.2.1, I would be perfectly happy to install and test one at
> a time, to see at what point the problem I'm having first occurs with
> the smallest set of changes in the package.

I don't think you'd want to do that -- it would involve some
serious cvs-fu...

However, in your case it's easier to try various a2ps options
by hand, since the only major changes in apsfilter w.r.t text
conversion are "pretty-printing" ("-g" option) and file format
specification ("-Email", "-Eperl", "-Ehtml" etc.). Apsfilter
doesn't care much about the actual file contents.

In former releases, pretty printing was *not* enabled by
default, so I think that's the cause for the visual
differences you get.

> b.  When you say "perfect results", could you describe what you're getting
> so that I can compare to what I observe in both cases (5.2.0 and 7.2.1)?

In color mode:
        - "From" and "Subject" tags are bold blue, contents on
          these lines are black on yellow
        - "To" and "Date" lines are bold red
        - other header lines are plain red
        - quoted text (">") is plain blue
        - normal text is black

In grayscale mode:
        - "From" and "Subject" tags are bold black, contents on
          these lines are white on black
        - "To" and "Date" lines are bold black on medium gray
        - other header lines are plain black on light gray
        - quoted text is italic black
        - normal text is black

In monochrome mode (all black):
        - "From" and "Subject" tags are bold, contents on
          these lines are *Helvetica* bold
        - "To" and "Date" lines are bold italic
        - other header lines are italic
        - quoted text is italic
        - normal text is plain

Different font sizes are not used in any mode. Unless noted
otherwise, Courier is the font face.

> c.  Could you tell me how to get a2ps 4.13b, since on the a2ps web page
> there is no reference to it that I can find?

How about  ftp://ftp.enst.fr/pub/unix/a2ps/  ??


HTH
Michael