Re: Need help restoring an old feature

["James B. Hiller" <jhiller@xxxxxxxx>]

> > 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...

You're right.  Not a CVS maven.  So, since earlier you'd said that the
pretty-printing feature got lost in 7.2.1, which was what I had downloaded
several weeks ago, would it be possible for me to find 7.2.0 somewhere
as a tarball, and just try that?

Reason is, that again, straight out of the box, with totally clean
installation, I'm getting the odd results; yet per your description
below, you are getting exactly what I DO get with 5.2.0, also clean, no
mods.

> 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.

I can and will do that, but not sure the utility of it.

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

Hmmmm.  Then, I shouldn't be getting pretty-print with 5.2.0, but I am,
and I SHOULD be getting it with 7.2.1, but I can't.  Do these facts
suggest anything you can think of?

[snip]

> 
> 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

Exactly what I USED to get.

jbh