#6 80x66 characters per page

[Jan Yenya Kasprzak]

I want to use paps instead of mpage to format plain
text files for a postscript printer. The problem is,
that some of my applications expect the line printer to
have exactly 80 columns and 66 lines per page (all line
printers have this, and mpage default values respect
these settings). However, there is no way to tell paps
that I want exactly these dimensions (measured in
number of characters).

Moreover, there is no way to tell PAPS I want the lines
which are longer than the limit to be wrapped or
truncated to the limit.

So I would suggest that the following new options
should be implemented:

--page-width-chars=80
--page-height-chars=66
--wrap-lines
--truncate-lines

I use paps-0.6.6-5.fc5 from Fedora Core 5, and by
trial-and-error I have figured out that the following
options do more-or-less what I want, but it can change
with a different font or whatever:

--paper a4 --top-margin 15 --bottom-margin 20
--font=Monospace\ 10

[Akira TAGOH]

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I think --cpi/--lpi option may helps you. or you don't want
to calculate the actual columns and lines against the paper
size? :)