Re: postscript printing in emacs

[Rami A]

On Friday, June 21, 2013 1:21:55 PM UTC-7, Peter Dyballa wrote:
> Am 21.06.2013 um 21:58 schrieb Rami A:
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> > I am honestly not so proficient in emacs nor lisp.
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> And neither in English?
I decided to include the lisp part after I wrote the "not so" so I missed 
including "neither" :)

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> I wrote before that it's not allowed to use another formatter as 
> ps-lpr-command because the ps-print and ps-spool commands already produce 
> PostScript output (that you can customise). Why are you trying this again?

I am honestly lost.
I don't want to produce a postscript file.
That is not my intention.
This what I had before:
At some point I was able to choose "postscript print buffer" and it would 
format the page and "print it" as if I am doing:
mp -l -s "\!*" <\!* | lp "buffer name"
from the command prompt in solaris.

Something changed in the environment and I can't do that anymore.

So I am trying to duplicate the same printing format in emacs "two pages in an 
oval bold line kind of format per page".

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> > I tried this:
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> > (setq ps-lpr-command "mp")
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> > (setq ps-lpr-switches '("-l" " -s" " | lp"))
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> > which also did not work.
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> And again you're not using the customisation interface of GNU Emacs (under 
> the Options menu). I presume you are a human being, so you can be a lot more 
> flexible than a compiled piece of software.

I am lost again. What kind of compilation you are talking about?
I just want to include some lines of lisp in my .emacs file so I can port it to 
any machine and have the same printing format and functionality.
I don't prefer using the customization window for anything.
But again, maybe I am missing the actual use of this interface you are 
mentioning.
Will read more about it.
Thanks.

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> Greetings
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>  Pete
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> "Indentation?! I will show you how to indent when I indent your skull!"