[plug] Prettify text reports

Leon Brooks leon at cyberknights.com.au
Mon Jul 11 08:01:09 WST 2005


On Sunday 10 July 2005 20:05, Carl Gherardi wrote:
> I'm looking at formalizing a couple of utility scripts I use for
> debug into something "pretty" to use in justifications to management.

> I resigned to adding an option to the script to print in some other
> form, but was curious about minimal markup tools that I could use.

> TeX and html feel like a lot more work than necessary - I'm thinking
> of outputting something like wiki syntax, and just pasting that in a
> wiki page and generating a printable page from that.

> What are peoples preferred options for pretty printing raw text? I'm
> looking for multiple header levels, a simple toc, simple tables with
> basic colouring and possibly some header branding in future.

a2ps

Chers; Leon

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