Re: formatting question

[Warren Pollans]

Thanks, that's exactly the advice I needed.  Here's a copy of the style 
sheet I'm using.  My needs are pretty simple - (1) pick out a group of 
words on some lines and highlight them and (2)  highlight lines 
starting with two spaces.


# Style sheet for dance card index

style "wlp" is
case sensitive

first alphabet is
   "ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz0123456789?"
second alphabet is
   "ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz0123456789?# &"

operators are
  # HighLight Title
  (/^\\([^-]+ -- \\)\\([^(]+\\)\\(.*\\)/
     \1 Plain, \2 Keyword_strong, \3 Plain),

  # HighLight OneLiner
  (/^\\(  .*\\)/
     \1 Label_strong)

end operators

end style



On Friday, Feb 27, 2004, at 04:42 US/Eastern, Jan Willem Knopper wrote:

> Warren Pollans wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > Please feel free to point me elsewhere if this is not the appropriate
> > place to ask this question.
> >
> > I have text files that I generate on the fly from database tables.
> > I've decided that they would look better if some groups of words were
> > in boldface.  The words are not fixed "keywords" but can be found 
> > using
> > a regex of the form ^pattern1(.*)pattern2$ so that $1 (or \1 ?)
> > contains the word(s) I want print in bold.  What's the easiest way to
> > have a2ps do this?  It seems like I should be able to write a simple
> > .ssh file to this but I can't figure it out.
>
> If you want to make a style sheet for your type of text files then you
> can make pattern1 bold with a regex P-rule (pretty printing rule). The
> example from the stylesheet info pages is:
>
>  (/^([a-zA-Z0-9_]*)([\t ]*:)/, \1 Label_strong, \2 Plain)
>
> which is made to highlight the a_rule of a `Yacc' rule:
>
>      a_rule : part1 part2 ;
>
> This rule can also be found in slightly different form in the file
> yacc.ssh in the stylesheets directory (which for me is
> /usr/local/share/a2ps/sheets).
>
> I hope this helps,
>
> Jan Willem