--header issues

[AcarBurak]

Thank you for the very useful programme.

Ability to configure the header would help a lot, that is, unless you yourself choose to remove the date and the "Page" strings.

The "Page" string ruins a non-English conversion and don't you think it's redundant in the first place?

The date string ruins any conversion.

[gnusupport]

I have the same problem, I would like to configure header.

[dov]

Thanks for asking about this! So I made a first implementation of it, and pushed it as part of the forthcoming version 0.8. As part of the implementation I switched to C++17. I hope it doesn't annoy to many people.

I have added three new command line options to paps:

• --header-left - The left side of the header
• --header-center - The center of the header
• --header-left - The right side of the header

They all take a string that is based on python f-strings. I have defined the following variable that may be used in the definitions of the headers:

• path - The complete path of the file being printed
• filename - The basename (without directory) of the file being printed
• mtime - The file's modification time
• now - The current time
• num_pages - The total number of pages in the document
• page_idx - The current page being printed

Here is an example of how it may be used:

paps --header-left="{now:%Y-%m-%d %H:%M}" --header-center="{filename}" --header-right="Page {page_idx:02d}/{num_pages:02d}" --header -o hello.pdf paps.cc

Please let me know your feedback.

[dov]

Since this is a duplicate of #4 , I'll close this issue.

[gnusupport]

That is great. I use paps to make nice PDF printouts from Emacs buffers. It is very useful for reporting purposes.

I guess you have forgot to customize analogously the --footer option.

Just that I cannot build it, neither configure nor meson works, you may see it in my other comment.

[dov]

That is great. I use paps to make nice PDF printouts from Emacs buffers. It is very useful for reporting purposes.

I guess you have forgot to customize analogously the --footer option.

Just that I cannot build it, neither configure nor meson works, you may see it in my other comment.

Note that I added footer as well, and fixed the compilation (I think). Did you have a chance to test it?

[gnusupport]

That is more than great, in the next step I will test it and make Emacs Lisp package for Emacs buffer printing and previews.

[gnusupport]

For me it works very nice and very well.

GNU Emacs package: rcd-paps.el:
https://gnu.support/gnu-emacs/packages/GNU-Emacs-package-rcd-paps-el-76862.html