Re: [Gm2] Pretty-printing Modula-2 with Gnu Enscript

[john o goyo]

On 26/03/2018 17:35, Carl Glassberg wrote:
> Hello Gaius:
>
> There was a discussion about pretty-printing m2 source a while ago and
> I personally have had good results in the past with Gnu Enscript. It
> has a lot of options including colorizing.
I seem to have misled people when I said "pretty-print".  I actually 
meant a program to reformat Modula-2 code (as indent can do with C 
code.  (A2ps has a good Modula-2 style sheet.)

Sincerely,
john

> You can add additional reserved words, etc. and create a custom style
> file for Gnu Modula-2.
>
> But I haven't made a custom st (style) file for Gnu Enscript in some
> time and my Linux machine is not running currently.
>
> I assume you need Emacs and elisp to run "build-re" to create
> regular-expressions
> from a list of reserved-words.
>
> But Gnu Enscript I believe now supports Modula-2, so maybe the
> built-in Modula-2 support is adequate.
>
> See www DOT markkurossi DOT com for more on Gnu Enscript.
>
> Sincerely
> Carl Glassberg