ENSCRIPT(1)                        ENSCRIPT                        ENSCRIPT(1)



NAME
       enscript - convert text files to PostScript, HTML, RTF, ANSI, and
       overstrikes


SYNOPSIS
       enscript [-123456789BcgGhjkKlmOqrRvVzZ] [-# copies] [-a pages] [-A
       align] [-b header] [-C[start_line]] [-d printer] [-D key[:value]]
       [-e[char]] [-E[lang]] [-f font] [-F header_font] [-H[num]] [-i indent]
       [-I filter] [-J title] [-L lines_per_page] [-M media] [-n copies] [-N
       newline] [-o outputfile] [-o -] [-p outputfile] [-p -] [-P printer] [-s
       baselineskip] [-S key[:value]] [-t title] [-T tabsize] [-u[text]] [-U
       num] [-w language] [-X encoding] [filename ...]


DESCRIPTION
       Enscript converts text files to PostScript or to other output
       languages.  Enscript can spool the generated output directly to a
       specified printer or leave it to a file.  If no input files are given,
       enscript processes the standard input stdin.  Enscript can be extended
       to handle different output media and it has many options which can be
       used to customize the printouts.


OPTIONS
       -# num  Print num copies of each page.

       -1, -2, -3, -4, -5, -6, -7, -8, -9, --columns=num
               Specify how many columns each page have.  With the long option
               --columns=num you can specify more than 9 columns per page.

       -a pages, --pages=pages
               Specify which pages are printed.  The page specification pages
               can be given in the following formats:

               begin-end
                       print pages from begin to end

               -end    print pages from 0 to end

               begin-  print pages from begin to end

               page    print page page

               odd     print odd pages

               even    print even pages

       -A align, --file-align=align
               Align separate input files to even align page count.  This
               option is useful in two-side and 2-up printings
               (--file-align=2).

       -b header, --header=header
               Use the text header as a page header.  The default page header
               is constructed from the name of the file and from its last
               modification time.

               The header string header can contain the same formatting
               escapes which can be specified for the %Format directives in
               the user defined fancy headers.  For example, the following
               option prints the file name, current date and page numbers:

               enscript --header='$n %W Page $% of $=' *.c

               The header string can also contain left, center and right
               justified fields.  The fields are separated by the '|'
               character:

               enscript --header='$n|%W|Page $% of $=' *.c

               now the file name is printed left justified, the date is
               centered to the header and the page numbers are printed right
               justified.

       -B, --no-header
               Do not print page headers.

       -c, --truncate-lines
               Cut lines that are too long for the page.  As a default,
               enscript wraps long lines to the next line so no information is
               lost.

               You can also use the --slice option which slices long lines to
               separate pages.

       -C[start_line], --line-numbers[=start_line]
               Precede each line with its line number.  The optional argument
               start_line specifies the number of the first line in the input.
               The number of the first line defaults to 1.

       -d name Spool output to the printer name.

       -D key[:value], --setpagedevice=key[:value]
               Pass a page device definition to the generated PostScript
               output.  If no value is given, the key key is removed from the
               definitions.

               For example, the command

               enscript -DDuplex:true foo.txt

               prints file foo.txt in duplex (two side) mode.

               Page device operators are implementation dependent but they are
               standardized.  See section PAGE DEVICE OPTIONS for the details.

       -e[char], --escapes[=char]
               Enable special escapes interpretation (see section SPECIAL
               ESCAPES).  If the argument char is given, it changes the escape
               character to char.  The default escape character is 0.

       -E[lang], --highlight[=lang]
               Highlight source code by creating a special input filter with
               the states program.  The optional argument lang specifies the
               language to highlight.  As a default the states makes an
               educated guess.

               You can print a short description of the supported highlighting
               languages and file formats with the command:

               enscript --help-highlight

               The highlighting rules are defined in the
               `/usr/local/share/enscript/hl/*.st' files which can be edited
               to create highlighting definitions for new languages.

               Note! You can not use your own input filters with this option.

       -f name, --font=name
               Select a font that is used for the body text.  The default body
               font is Courier10, unless multicolumn landscape printing mode
               is selected, in which case the default font is Courier7.

               The font specification name contains two parts: the name of the
               font and its size in PostScript points.  For example,
               "Times-Roman12" selects the "Times-Roman" font with size 12pt.

               The font specification name can also be given in format
               `name@ptsize', where the name of the font and its point size
               are separated by a `@' character.  This allows enscript to use
               fonts which contain digit characters in their names.

               The font point size can also be given in the format
               width/height where the width and the height specify the size of
               the font in x- and y-directions.  For example,
               "Times-Roman@10/12" selects a 10 points wide and 12 points high
               "Times-Roman" font.

               You can also give the font sizes as decimal numbers.  For
               example, "Times-Roman10.2" selects a 10.2pt "Times-Roman" font.

       -F name, --header-font=name
               Select a font for the header texts.

       -g, --print-anyway
               Print a file even if it contains binary data.  The option is
               implemented only for compatibility purposes.  Enscript prints
               binary files anyway regardless of the option.

       -G, --fancy-header[=name]
               Print a fancy page header name to the top of each page.  The
               option -G specifies the default fancy header.  See section
               CONFIGURATION FILES to see how the default fancy header can be
               changed.

       -h, --no-job-header
               Suppress printing of the job header page.

       -H[num], --highlight-bars[=num]
               Specify how high the highlight bars are in lines.  If the num
               is not given, the default value 2 is used.  As a default, no
               highlight bars are printed.

       -i num, --indent=num
               Indent every line num characters.  The indentation can also be
               specified in other units by appending an unit specifier after
               the number.  The possible unit specifiers and the corresponding
               units are:

               c       centimeters

               i       inches

               l       characters (default)

               p       PostScript points

       -I filter, --filter=filter
               Read all input files through an input filter filter.  The input
               filter can be a single command or a command pipeline.  The
               filter can refer to the name of the input file with the escape
               `%s'.  The name of the standard input can be changed with the
               option `--filter-stdin'.

               For example, the following command prints the file `foo.c' by
               using only upper-case characters:

               enscript --filter="cat %s | tr 'a-z' 'A-Z'" foo.c

               The following command highlights changes which are made to
               files since the last checkout:

               enscript --filter="rcsdiff %s | diffpp %s" -e *.c

               To include the string "%s" to the filter command, you must
               write it as "%%s".

       -j, --borders
               Print borders around columns.

       -J title
               An alias for the option -t, --title.

       -k, --page-prefeed
               Enable page prefeed.

       -K, --no-page-prefeed
               Disable page prefeed (default).

       -l, --lineprinter
               Emulate lineprinter.  This option is a shortcut for the options
               --lines-per-page=66, and --no-header.

       -L num, --lines-per-page=num
               Print only num lines for each page.  As a default, the number
               of lines per page is computed from the height of the page and
               from the size of the font.

       -m, --mail
               Send a mail notification to user after the print job has been
               completed.

       -M name, --media=name
               Select an output media name.  Enscript's default output media
               is A4.

       -n num, --copies=num
               Print num copies of each page.

       -N nl, --newline=nl
               Select the newline character.  The possible values for nl are:
               n (unix newline, 0xa hex) and r (mac newline, 0xd hex).

       -o file An alias for the option -p, --output.

       -O, --missing-characters
               Print a listing of character codes which couldn't be printed.

       -p file, --output=file
               Leave the output to file file.  If the file is `-', enscript
               sends the output to the standard output stdout.

       -P name, --printer=name
               Spool the output to the printer name.

       -q, --quiet, --silent
               Make enscript really quiet.  Only fatal error messages are
               printed to stderr.

       -r, --landscape
               Print in the landscape mode; rotate page 90 degrees.

       -R, --portrait
               Print in the portrait mode (default).

       -s num, --baselineskip=num
               Specify the baseline skip in PostScript points.  The number num
               can be given as a decimal number.  When enscript moves from
               line to line, the current point y coordinate is moved (font
               point size + baselineskip) points down.  The default baseline
               skip is 1.

       -S key[:value], --statusdict=key[:value]
               Pass a statusdict definition to the generated PostScript
               output.  If no value is given, the key key is removed from the
               definitions.

               The statusdict operators are implementation dependent; see the
               printer's documentation for the details.

               For example, the command

               enscript -Ssetpapertray:1 foo.txt

               prints the file foo.txt by using paper from the paper tray 1
               (assuming that the printer supports paper tray selection).

       -t title, --title=title
               Set banner page's job title to title.  The option sets also the
               name of the input file stdin.

       -T num, --tabsize=num
               Set the tabulator size to num characters.  The default is 8.

       -u[text], --underlay[=text]
               Print the string text under every page.  The properties of the
               text can be changed with the options --ul-angle, --ul-font,
               --ul-gray, --ul-position, and --ul-style.

               If no text is given, the underlay is not printed.  This can be
               used to remove an underlay text that was specified with the
               `Underlay' configuration file option.

       -U num, --nup=num
               Print num logical pages on each output page (N-up printing).
               The values num must be a power of 2.

       -v, --verbose[=level]
               Tell what enscript is doing.

       -V, --version
               Print enscript version information and exit.

       -w [lang], --language[=lang]
               Generate output for the language lang.  The possible values for
               lang are:

               PostScript
                       generate PostScript (default)

               html    generate HTML

               overstrike
                       generate overstrikes (line printers, less)

               rtf     generate RTF (Rich Text Format)

               ansi    generate ANSI terminal control codes

       -X name, --encoding=name
               Use the input encoding name.  Currently enscript supports the
               following encodings:

               88591, latin1
                       ISO-8859-1 (ISO Latin1) (enscript's default encoding).

               88592, latin2
                       ISO-8859-2 (ISO Latin2)

               88593, latin3
                       ISO-8859-3 (ISO Latin3)

               88594, latin4
                       ISO-8859-4 (ISO Latin4)

               88595, cyrillic
                       ISO-8859-5 (ISO Cyrillic)

               88597, greek
                       ISO-8859-7 (ISO Greek)

               88599, latin5
                       ISO-8859-9 (ISO Latin5)

               885910, latin6
                       ISO-8859-10 (ISO Latin6)

               ascii   7-bit ascii

               asciifise, asciifi, asciise
                       7-bit ascii with some scandinavian (Finland, Sweden)
                       extensions

               asciidkno, asciidk, asciino
                       7-bit ascii with some scandinavian (Denmark, Norway)
                       extensions

               ibmpc, pc, dos
                       IBM PC charset

               mac     Mac charset

               vms     VMS multinational charset

               hp8     HP Roman-8 charset

               koi8    Adobe Standard Cyrillic Font KOI8 charset

               ps, PS  PostScript font's default encoding

               pslatin1, ISOLatin1Encoding
                       PostScript interpreter's `ISOLatin1Encoding'

       -z, --no-formfeed
               Turn off the form feed character interpretation.

       -Z, --pass-through
               Pass through all PostScript and PCL files without any
               modifications.  This allows that enscript can be used as a lp
               filter.

               The PostScript files are recognized by looking up the `%!'
               magic cookie from the beginning of the file. Note! Enscript
               recognized also the Windoze damaged `^D%!' cookie.

               The PCL files are recognized by looking up the `^[E' or `^[%'
               magic cookies from the beginning of the file.

       --color[=bool]
               Use colors in the highlighting outputs.

       --download-font=fontname
               Include the font description file (.pfa or .pfb file) of the
               font fontname to the generated output.

       --extended-return-values
               Enable extended return values.  As a default, enscript returns
               1 on error and 0 otherwise.  The extended return values give
               more details about the printing operation.  See the section
               RETURN VALUE for the details.

       --filter-stdin=name
               Specify how the stdin is shown to the input filter.  The
               default value is an empty string ("") but some programs require
               that the stdin is called something else, usually "-".

       --footer=footer
               Use the text footer as a page footer.  Otherwise the option
               works like the --header option

       --h-column-height=height
               Set the horizontal column height to be height PostScript
               points.  The option sets the formfeed type to
               horizontal-columns.

       --help  Print a short help message and exit.

       --help-highlight
               Describe all supported --highlight languages and file formats.

       --highlight-bar-gray=gray
               Specify the gray level which is used in printing the highlight
               bars.

       --list-media
               List the names of all known output media and exit successfully.

       --margins=left:right:top:bottom
               Adjust the page marginals to be exactly left, right, top and
               bottom PostScript points.  Any of the arguments can be left
               empty in which case the default value is used.

       --mark-wrapped-lines[=style]
               Mark wrapped lines in the output with the style style.  The
               possible values for the style are:

               none    do not mark them (default)

               plus    print a plus (+) character to the end of each wrapped
                       line

               box     print a black box to the end of each wrapped line

               arrow   print a small arrow to the end of each wrapped line

       --non-printable-format=format
               Specify how the non-printable characters are printed.  The
               possible values for the format are:

               caret   caret notation: `^@', `^A', `^B', ...

               octal   octal notation: `\000', `\001', `\002', ... (default)

               questionmark
                       replace non-printable characters with a question mark
                       `?'

               space   replace non-printable characters with a space ` '

       --nup-columnwise
               Change the layout of the sub-pages in the N-up printing from
               row-wise to columnwise.

       --nup-xpad=num
               Set the page x-padding of the n-up printing to num PostScript
               points.  The default is 10 points.

       --nup-ypad=num
               Set the page y-padding of the n-up printing to num PostScript
               points.  The default is 10 points.

       --page-label-format=format
               Set the page label format to format.  The page label format
               specifies how the labels for the `%%Page:' PostScript comments
               are formatted.  The possible values are:

               short   Print the current pagenumber: `%%Page: (1) 1' (default)

               long    Print the current filename and pagenumber: `%%Page:
                       (main.c:  1) 1'

       --ps-level=level
               Set the PostScript language level that enscript uses for its
               output to level.  The possible values are 1, and 2.

       --printer-options=options
               Pass extra options to the printer command.

       --rotate-even-pages
               Rotate each even-numbered page 180 degrees.

       --slice=num
               Print the vertical slice num.  The slices are vertical regions
               of input files.  A new slice starts from the point where the
               line would otherwise be wrapped to the next line.  The slice
               numbers start from 1.

       --style=style
               Set the highlighting style to style.  The possible values are:
               a2ps, emacs, emacs_verbose, ifh, and msvc.

       --swap-even-page-margins
               Swap left and right page margins for even-numbered pages.

       --toc   Print a table of contents to the end of the output.

       --word-wrap
               Wrap long lines from word boundaries.

       --ul-angle=angle
               Set the angle of the underlay text to angle.  As a default, the
               angle is atan(-d_page_h, d_page_w).

       --ul-font=name
               Select a font for the underlay text.  The default underlay font
               is Times-Roman200.

       --ul-gray=num
               Print the underlay text with the gray value num (0 ... 1), the
               default gray value is .8.

       --ul-position=position_spec
               Set the underlay text's starting position according to the
               position_spec.  The position specification must be given in
               format: `sign xpos sign ypos', where the sign must be `+' or
               `-'.  The positive dimensions are measured from the lower left
               corner and the negative dimensions from the upper right corner.
               For example, the specification `+0-0' specifies the upper left
               corner and `-0+0' specifies the lower right corner.

       --ul-style=style
               Set the underlay text's style to style.  The possible values
               for style are:

               outline print outline underlay texts (default)

               filled  print filled underlay texts


CONFIGURATION FILES
       Enscript reads configuration information from the following sources (in
       this order): command line options, environment variable ENSCRIPT,
       user's personal configuration file ($HOME/.enscriptrc), site
       configuration file (/etc/enscriptsite.cfg) and system's global
       configuration file (/etc/enscript.cfg).

       The configuration files have the following format:

       Empty lines and lines starting with `#' are comments.

       All other lines are option lines and have format:

       option [arguments ...].

       The following options can be specified:

       AcceptCompositeCharacters: bool
               Specify whether PostScript font's composite characters are
               accepted as printable or if they should be considered as non-
               existent.  The default value is false (0).

       AFMPath: path
               Specifies the search path for the AFM files.

       AppendCtrlD: bool
               Specify if the Control-D (^D) character should be appended to
               the end of the output.  The default value is false (0).

       Clean7Bit: bool
               Specify how characters greater than 127 are printed.  The
               valuee true (1) generates 7-bit clean code by escaping all
               characters greater than 127 to the backslash-octal notation
               (default).  The value false (0) generates 8-bit PostScript code
               leaving all characters untouched.

       DefaultEncoding: name
               Select the default input encoding.  The encoding name name can
               be one of the values of the option -X, --encoding.

       DefaultFancyHeader: name
               Select the default fancy header.  The default header is used
               when the option -G is specified or the option --fancy-header is
               given without an argument.  The system-wide default is
               `enscript'.

       DefaultMedia: name
               Select the default output media.

       DefaultOutputMethod: method
               Select the default target to which the generated output is
               sent.  The possible values for the method are:

               printer send output to printer (default)

               stdout  send output to stdout

       DownloadFont: fontname
               Include the font description file of the font fontname to the
               generated output.

       EscapeChar: num
               Specify the escape character for the special escapes.  The
               default value is 0.

       FormFeedType: type
               Specify what to do when a formfeed character is encountered
               from the input.  The possible values for type are:

               column  move to the beginning of the next column (default)

               page    move to the beginning of the next page

       GeneratePageSize: bool
               Specify whether the PageSize page device setting is generated
               to the PostScript output.  The default value is true (1).

       HighlightBarGray: gray
               Specify the gray level which is used to print the highlight
               bars.

       HighlightBars: num
               Specify how high the highlight bars are in lines.  The default
               value is 0 which means that no highlight bars are printed.

       LibraryPath: path
               Specifies the enscript's library path that is used to lookup
               various resources.  The default path is:
               `/usr/local/share/enscript:home/.enscript'.  Where the home is
               the user's home directory.

       MarkWrappedLines: style
               Mark wraped lines in the output with the style style.  The
               possible values for the format are the same which can be given
               for the --mark-wrapped-lines option.

       Media: name width height llx lly urx ury
               Add a new output media with the name name.  The physical
               dimensions of the media are width and height.  The bounding box
               of the Media is specified by the points (llx, lly) and (urx,
               ury).  Enscript prints all graphics inside the bounding box of
               the media.

               User can select this media with option -M name.

       NoJobHeaderSwitch: switch
               Specify the spooler option to suppress the print job header
               page.  This option is passed to the printer spooler when the
               enscript's option -h, --no-job-header is selected.

       NonPrintableFormat: format
               Specify how the non-printable characters are printed.  The
               possible values for format are the same which can be given for
               the --non-printable-format option.

       OutputFirstLine: line
               Set the PostScript output's first line to line.  The default
               value is PS-Adobe-3.0.  Since some printers do not like DSC
               levels greater than 2.0, this option can be used to change the
               output first line to something more suitable like %!PS-
               Adobe-2.0 or %!.

       PageLabelFormat: format
               Set the page label format to format.  The possible values for
               format are the same which can be given for the
               --page-label-format option.

       PagePrefeed: bool
               Enable / disable page prefeed.  The default value is false (0).

       PostScriptLevel: level
               Set the PostScript language level, that enscript uses for its
               output, to level.  The possible values for level are the same
               which can be given for the --ps-level option.

       Printer: name
               Names the printer to which the output is spooled.

       QueueParam: name
               The spooler command switch to select the printer queue, e.g. -P
               in lpr -Pps.  This option can also be used to pass other flags
               to the spooler command.  These options must be given before the
               queue switch.

       SetPageDevice: key[:value]
               Pass a page device definition to the generated PostScript
               output.

       Spooler: name
               Names the printer spooler command.  Enscript pipes generated
               PostScript to the command name.

       StatesBinary: path
               Define an absolute path to the states program.

       StatesColor: bool
               Should the states program generate color outputs.

       StatesConfigFile: file
               Read highlighting states configuration from the file file.  The
               default config file is
               `/usr/local/share/enscript/hl/enscript.st'.

       StatesHighlightStyle: style
               Set the highlight style to style.

       StatesPath: path
               Define the path for the states program.  The states program
               will lookup its state definition files from this path.  The
               default value is
               `$HOME/.enscript:/usr/local/share/enscript/hl'.

       StatusDict: key[:value]
               Pass a statusdict definition to the generated PostScript
               output.

       TOCFormat: format
               Format table of contents entries with the format string format.
               The format string format can contain the same escapes which are
               used to format header strings with the `%Format' special
               comment.

       Underlay: text
               Print string text under every page.

       UnderlayAngle: num
               Set the angle of the underlay text to num.

       UnderlayFont: fontspec
               Select a font for the underlay text.

       UnderlayGray: num
               Print the underlay text with the gray value num.

       UnderlayPosition: position_spec
               Set the underlay text's starting position according to the
               position_spec.

       UnderlayStyle: style
               Set the underlay text's style to style.


FANCY HEADERS
       Users can create their own fancy headers by creating a header
       description file and placing it in a directory which is in enscript's
       library path.  The name of the header file must be in format:
       `headername.hdr'.  Header can be selected by giving option:
       --fancy-header=headername.

       Header description file contains PostScript code that paints the
       header.  Description file must provide procedure do_header which is
       called by enscript at the beginning of every page.

       Header description file contains two parts: comments and code.  Parts
       are separated by a line containing text:

       % -- code follows this line --

       Enscript copies only the code part of description file to the generated
       PostScript output.  The comments part can contain any data, it is not
       copied.  If separator line is missing, no data is copied to output.

       Enscript defines following constants which can be used in header
       description files:

       d_page_w        page width

       d_page_h        page height

       d_header_x      header lower left x coordinate

       d_header_y      header lower left y coordinate

       d_header_w      header width

       d_header_h      header height

       d_footer_x      footer lower left x coordinate

       d_footer_y      footer lower left y coordinate

       d_footer_w      footer width

       d_footer_h      footer height

       d_output_w      width of the text output area

       d_output_h      height of the text output area

       user_header_p   predicate which tells if user has defined his/her own
                       header string: true/false

       user_header_left_str
                       if user_header_p is true, this is the left field of the
                       user supplied header string.

       user_header_center_str
                       if user_header_p is true, this is the center field of
                       the user supplied header string

       user_header_right_str
                       if user_header_p is true, this is the right field of
                       the user supplied header string

       user_footer_p   predicate which tells if user has defined his/her own
                       footer string: true/false

       user_footer_left_str
                       if user_footer_p is true, this is the left field of the
                       user supplied footer string.

       user_footer_center_str
                       if user_footer_p is true, this is the center field of
                       the user supplied footer string

       user_footer_right_str
                       if user_footer_p is true, this is the right field of
                       the user supplied footer string

       HF              standard header font (from -F, --header-font option).
                       This can be selected simply by invoking command: `HF
                       setfont'.

       pagenum         the number of the current page

       fname           the full name of the printed file (/foo/bar.c)

       fdir            the directory part of the file name (/foo)

       ftail           file name without the directory part (bar.c)

       gs_languagelevel
                       PostScript interpreter's language level (currently 1 or
                       2)

       You can also use the following special comments to customize your
       headers and to specify some extra options.  Special comments are like
       DSC comments but they start with a single `%' character; special
       comments start from the beginning of the line and they have the
       following syntax:

       %commentname: options

       Currently enscript support the following special comments:

       %Format: name format
               Define a new string constant name according to the format
               string format.  Format string start from the first non-space
               character and it ends to the end of the line.  Format string
               can contain general `%' escapes and input file related `$'
               escapes.  Currently following escapes are supported:

               %%      character `%'

               $$      character `$'

               $%      current page number

               $=      number of pages in the current file

               $p      number of pages processed so far

               $(VAR)  value of the environment variable VAR.

               %c      trailing component of the current working directory

               %C ($C) current time (file modification time) in `hh:mm:ss'
                       format

               %d      current working directory

               %D ($D) current date (file modification date) in `yy-mm-dd'
                       format

               %D{string} ($D{string})
                       format string string with the strftime(3) function.
                       `%D{}' refers to the current date and `$D{}' to the
                       input file's last modification date.

               %E ($E) current date (file modification date) in `yy/mm/dd'
                       format

               %F ($F) current date (file modification date) in `dd.mm.yyyy'
                       format

               %H      document title

               $L      number of lines in the current input file.  This is
                       valid only for the toc entries, it can't be used in
                       header strings.

               %m      the hostname up to the first `.' character

               %M      the full hostname

               %n      the user login name

               $n      input file name without the directory part

               %N      the user's pw_gecos field up to the first `,' character

               $N      the full input file name

               %t ($t) current time (file modification time) in 12-hour am/pm
                       format

               %T ($T) current time (file modification time) in 24-hour format
                       `hh:mm'

               %* ($*) current time (file modification time) in 24-hour format
                       with seconds `hh:mm:ss'

               $v      the sequence number of the current input file

               $V      the sequence number of the current input file in the
                       `Table of Contents' format: if the --toc option is
                       given, escape expands to `num-'; if the --toc is not
                       given, escape expands to an empty string.

               %W ($W) current date (file modification date) in `mm/dd/yy'
                       format

               All format directives except `$=' can also be given in format

               escape width directive

               where width specifies the width of the column to which the
               escape is printed.  For example, escape "$5%" will expand to
               something like " 12".  If the width is negative, the value will
               be printed left-justified.

               For example, the `emacs.hdr' defines its date string with the
               following format comment:

               %Format: eurdatestr %E

               which expands to:

               /eurdatestr (96/01/08) def

       %HeaderHeight: height
               Allocate height points space for the page header.  The default
               header height is 36 points.

       %FooterHeight: height
               Allocate height points space for the page footer.  The default
               footer height is 0 points.

       According to Adobe's Document Structuring Conventions (DSC), all
       resources needed by a document must be listed in document's prolog.
       Since user's can create their own headers, enscript don't know what
       resources those headers use.  That's why all headers must contain a
       standard DSC comment that lists all needed resources.  For example,
       used fonts can be listed with following comment:

       %%DocumentNeededResources: font fontname1 fontname2

       Comment can be continued to the next line with the standard
       continuation comment:

       %%+ font fontname3


SPECIAL ESCAPES
       Enscript supports special escape sequences which can be used to add
       some page formatting commands to ASCII documents.  As a default,
       special escapes interpretation is off, so all ASCII files print out as
       everyone expects.  Special escapes interpretation is activated by
       giving option -e, --escapes to enscript.

       All special escapes start with the escape character.  The default
       escape character is ^@ (octal 000); escape character can be changed
       with option -e, --escapes.  Escape character is followed by escape's
       name and optional options and arguments.

       Currently enscript supports following escapes:

       bgcolor change the text background color.  The syntax of the escape is:

               ^@bgcolor{red green blue}

               where the color components red, green, and blue are given as
               decimal numbers between values 0 and 1.


       bggray  change the text background color.  The syntax of the escape is:

               ^@bggray{gray}

               where gray is the new text background gray value.  The default
               value is 1.0 (white).

       color   change the text color.  The syntax of the escape is:

               ^@color{red green blue}

               where color components red, green and blue are given as decimal
               numbers between values 0 and 1.

       comment comment the rest of the line including the newline character.
               Escape's syntax is:

               ^@comment text newline_character

       escape  change the escape character.  The syntax of the escape is:

               ^@escape{code}

               where code is the decimal code of the new escape character.

       epsf    inline EPS file to the document.  The syntax of the escape is:

               ^@epsf[options]{filename}

               where options is an optional sequence of option characters and
               values enclosed with brackets and filename is the name of the
               EPS file.

               If filename ends to the `|' character, then filename is assumed
               to name a command that prints EPS data to its standard output.
               In this case, enscript opens a pipe to the specified command
               and reads EPS data from pipe.

               Following options can be given for the epsf escape:

               c       print image centered

               r       print image right justified

               n       do not update current point.  Following output is
                       printed to that position where the current point was
                       just before the epsf escape

               nx      do not update current point x coordinate

               ny      do not update current point y coordinate

               xnum    move image's top left x coordinate num characters from
                       current point x coordinate (relative position)

               xnuma   set image's top left x coordinate to column num
                       (absolute position)

               ynum    move image's top left y coordinate num lines from
                       current line (relative position)

               ynuma   set image's top left y coordinate to line num (absolute
                       position)

               hnum    set image's height to num lines

               snum    scale image with factor num

               sxnum   scale image in x direction with factor num

               synum   scale image in y direction with factor num

               As a default, all dimensions are given in lines (vertical) and
               characters (horizontal).  You can also specify other units by
               appending an unit specifier after number.  Possible unit
               specifiers and the corresponding units are:

               c       centimeters

               i       inches

               l       lines or characters (default)

               p       PostScript points

               For example to print an image one inch high, you can specify
               height by following options: h1i (1 inch), h2.54c (2.54 cm),
               h72p (72 points).

       font    select current font.  The syntax of the escape is:

               ^@font{fontname[:encoding]}

               where fontname is a standard font specification.  Special font
               specification default can be used to select the default body
               font (enscript's default or the one specified by the command
               line option -f, --font).

               The optional argument encoding specifies the encoding that
               should be used for the new font.  Currently the encoding can
               only be the enscript's global input encoding or ps.

       ps      include raw PostScript code to the output.  The syntax of the
               escape is:

               ^@ps{code}

       shade   highlight regions of text by changing the text background
               color.  Escape's syntax is:

               ^@shade{gray}

               where gray is the new text background gray value.  The default
               value is 1.0 (white) which disables highlighting.


PAGE DEVICE OPTIONS
       Page device is a PostScript level 2 feature that offers an uniform
       interface to control printer's output device.  Enscript protects all
       page device options inside an if block so they have no effect in level
       1 interpreters.  Although all level 2 interpreters support page device,
       they do not have to support all page device options.  For example some
       printers can print in duplex mode and some can not.  Refer to the
       documentation of your printer for supported options.

       Here are some usable page device options which can be selected with the
       -D, --setpagedevice option.  For a complete listing, see PostScript
       Language Reference Manual: section 4.11 Device Setup.

       Collate boolean
               how output is organized when printing multiple copies

       Duplex boolean
               duplex (two side) printing

       ManualFeed boolean
               manual feed paper tray

       OutputFaceUp boolean
               print output `face up' or `face down'

       Tumble boolean
               how opposite sides are positioned in duplex printing


PRINTING EXAMPLES
       Following printing examples assume that enscript uses the default
       configuration.  If default actions have been changed from the
       configuration files, some examples will behave differently.

       enscript foo.txt
               Print file foo.txt to the default printer.

       enscript -Possu foo.txt
               Print file foo.txt to printer ossu.

       enscript -pfoo.ps foo.txt
               Print file foo.txt, but leave PostScript output to file foo.ps.

       enscript -2 foo.txt
               Print file foo.txt to two columns.

       enscript -2r foo.txt
               Print file to two columns and rotate output 90 degrees
               (landscape).

       enscript -DDuplex:true foo.txt
               Print file in duplex (two side) mode (printer dependent).

       enscript -G2rE -U2 foo.c
               My default code printing command: gaudy header, two columns,
               landscape, code highlighting, 2-up printing.

       enscript -E --color -whtml --toc -pfoo.html *.h *.c
               A nice HTML report of your project's C source files.


ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES
       The environment variable ENSCRIPT can be used to pass default options
       for enscript.  For example, to select the default body font to be
       Times-Roman 7pt, set the following value to the ENSCRIPT environment
       variable:

       -fTimes-Roman7

       The value of the ENSCRIPT variable is processed before the command line
       options, so command line options can be used to overwrite these
       defaults.

       Variable ENSCRIPT_LIBRARY specifies the enscript's library directory.
       It can be used to overwrite the build-in default
       `/usr/local/share/enscript'.


RETURN VALUE
       Enscript returns value 1 to the shell if any errors were encountered or
       0 otherwise.  If the option --extended-return-values was specified, the
       return value is constructed from the following flags:

       0       no errors or warnings

       2       some lines were truncated or wrapped

       4       some characters were missing from the used fonts

       8       some characters were unprintable


FILES
       /usr/local/share/enscript/*.hdr         header files
       /usr/local/share/enscript/*.enc         input encoding vectors
       /usr/local/share/enscript/enscript.pro  PostScript prolog
       /usr/local/share/enscript/afm/*.afm     AFM files for PostScript fonts
       /usr/local/share/enscript/font.map      index for the AFM files
       /usr/local/share/enscript/hl/*.st       states definition files
       /etc/enscript.cfg                       system-wide configuration file
       /etc/enscriptsite.cfg                   site configuration file
       ~/.enscriptrc                           personal configuration file
       ~/.enscript/                            personal resource directory


SEE ALSO
       diffpp(1), ghostview(1), gs(1), lpq(1), lpr(1), lprm(1), states(1)


AUTHOR
       Markku Rossi <mtr@iki.fi> <http://www.iki.fi/~mtr/>

       GNU Enscript WWW home page: <http://www.iki.fi/~mtr/genscript/>



ENSCRIPT                         Mar 12, 1999                      ENSCRIPT(1)
