Friday, March 5, 2010

Re: math, utf-8, and windows

Benjamin R. Haskell wrote:
> On Thu, 4 Mar 2010, Charles Campbell wrote:
>
>
>> Tony Mechelynck wrote:
>>
>>> [snip]
>>>
>>>
>>>> And, what's a good way to print out files containing these symbols?
>>>> :hardcopy doesn't cut it.
>>>>
>>> Maybe pass the file as a .txt file to your browser, and print it
>>> from there, using an appropriate monospaced font? That usually does
>>> it for me, when a file contains Unicode codepoints higher than
>>> U+00FF.
>>>
>> I'll try this out -- I've been putting a lot of math into comments for
>> various C files I've written. I, like others have stated, wish that
>> enscript would handle these characters.
>>
>>
>
> See the vim_use thread "Printing with utf-8 characters on Windows"[1]
> for more context. (Started Windows-only, devolved into UTF-8 printing
> in general.)
>
> I was able to get decent UTF-8 printing via 'paps'[2] by using the
> following command:
>
> :!paps < % > %:r.ps
>
> (... it was also suggested I wiki(a)-fy that... Too few tuits,
> especially round ones; sorry)
>
>
Thank you -- I'll definitely be using this.

Chip Campbell

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