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7 Pretty Printing
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The main feature of a2ps is its pretty-printing capabilities.  Two
different levels of pretty printing can be reached:
   - basic (normal highlight level) in which what you print is what you
     wrote.

   - string (heavy highlight level), in which in general, some keywords
     are replaced by a Symbol character which best represents them.  For
     instance, in most languages '<=' and '>=' will be replaced by the
     corresponding single character from the font Symbol.

   Note that the difference is up to the author of the style sheet.

Syntactic limits

What can't be done

Known Style Sheets

Some supported languages

Type Setting Style Sheets

a2ps as a tiny word processor

Faces

Encoding the look of pieces of text

Style sheets semantics

What is to be defined

Style Sheets Implementation

How they should be defined

A tutorial on style sheets

Step by step example