if 0 { <> ---- **Summary** [HJG] 2016-02-02: This is another attempt at quick, easy, ad-hoc [printing] of plain textfiles. I often have some informations in a textfile, and if I need to print that, I want a nice looking page, <
> e.g. with a few headers, some text in bold etc., but I don't want to use an 'Office'-textprocessor for that. The idea is to convert that textfile to a html-file, then print that with the webbrowser. The basic operation of that converter is to copy the inputfile x.txt to x.html, <
> add some lines like "" "", "" etc. and wrap the first line of text in

-tags. <
> Also, replace some chars (like &, <, >) with html-entities. Then I can drop the resulting file x.html into the browser and print. <
> Or, with a fixed location for the output-file, use a bookmark in the browser. Add some CSS to taste, and extent the converters "basic operation" to cover more markup, as need arises. There are some programs available that work like that, e.g. [Markdown]. <
> But Markdown uses Perl, and I want even more minimal markup. ---- With ideas and code from the following pages: * http://wiki.tcl.tk/28965%|%Markdown%|% * [A little demon] - Script that can work as a print-spooler. * [A grep-like utility] * [Scan and modify text files] * ... } ---- **Code** ======tcl # EasyTextPrint001.tcl - HaJo Gurt - 2016-02-02 # http://wiki.tcl.tk/42409 puts "EasyTextPrint:" set i 0 foreach s { foo bar grill } { incr i; puts "$i $s" } ... ### EOF ### ====== ---- **Code - awk** I went ahead and also did this program using awk, and this script has some more features implemented: ====== xx ====== ---- **Input** This is an example of a plain textfile used as input. It will show pretty much all features implemented for now, and result in 2 printed pages. ====== # Comment - this is the file: City.txt # Großstädte in Deutschland Kommunalverband besonderer Art == ##++ skip # Test1: Test Textstyle: **bold** //italic// __underline__ Umlaute: < ÄÖÜ & äöüß > -- H3 Text-Paragraph Text=P Text-Pre Text=Pre * Text-UL * Text=UL -- Jäger, Müller & Förster GmbH & Co. KG Erzhäuser Straße. 90, 88662 Überlingen Tel. 07773 85 86 87 -- ##--Start-- Aachen Nordrhein-Westfalen Einwohner: 243.336 Postleitzahlen: 52056–52080 Vorwahlen: 0241, 02403, 02405, 02407, 02408 Kfz-Kennzeichen: AC, MON 52062 Aachen -- Bergisch Gladbach Nordrhein-Westfalen Einwohner: 109.697 Postleitzahlen: 51427–51469 Vorwahlen: 02202, 02204, 02207 Kfz-Kennzeichen: GL 51465 Bergisch Gladbach -- Göttingen Niedersachsen Einwohner: 117.665 Postleitzahlen: 37001–37099 Vorwahl: 0551 Kfz-Kennzeichen: GÖ 37083 Göttingen -- Hannover Niedersachsen Höhe: 55 m ü. NHN Fläche: 204,14 km² Einwohner: 523.642 Postleitzahlen: 30159–30659 Vorwahl: 0511 Kfz-Kennzeichen: H 30159 Hannover -- Moers Nordrhein-Westfalen Einwohner: 102.923 Postleitzahlen: 47441–47447 Vorwahl: 02841 Kfz-Kennzeichen: WES, DIN, MO 47441 Moers -- ##!! page-break Neuss Nordrhein-Westfalen Einwohner: 152.644 Postleitzahlen: 41460–41472 Vorwahlen: 02131, 02137, 02182 Kfz-Kennzeichen: NE, GV 41460 Neuss -- Paderborn Nordrhein-Westfalen Einwohner: 145.176 Postleitzahlen: 33098–33109 Vorwahlen: 05251, 05252, 05254, 05293 Kfz-Kennzeichen: PB, BÜR 33098 Paderborn -- Recklinghausen Nordrhein-Westfalen Einwohner: 114.147 Postleitzahlen: 45601–45665 Vorwahl: 02361 Kfz-Kennzeichen: RE, CAS, GLA 45657 Recklinghausen -- Reutlingen Baden-Württemberg Regierungsbezirk: Tübingen Landkreis: Reutlingen Einwohner: 112.452 Postleitzahlen: 72760–72770 Vorwahlen: 07121, 07072 und 07127 Kfz-Kennzeichen: RT 72764 Reutlingen -- Saarbrücken Saarland Einwohner: 180.047 Postleitzahlen: 66001–66133 Vorwahlen: 0681, 06893, 06897, 06898, 06805, 06806, 06881 Kfz-Kennzeichen: SB 66111 Saarbrücken -- Siegen Nordrhein-Westfalen Kreis: Siegen-Wittgenstein Einwohner: 100.325 Postleitzahlen: 57072–57080 Vorwahlen: 0271, 02732 (Meiswinkel), 02737 (Feuersbach) Kfz-Kennzeichen: SI, BLB 57072 Siegen -- _ Hi Hi Hi Hi Hi Hi Hi Hi Hi Hi Hi %%End%% ##__EOF__ dont print this bla blah ====== ---- **Comments** ***Markup*** * # - Comments: lines starting with a '#' don't get printed. * ## - Commands: some special comments are used as commands: ** ##__ - End-of-file. Stop printing. ** ##!! - Pagebreak ** ##++ - Start-marker: skip the following lines, until the endmarker "##--" is found. ** ##-- - Resume printing * The first non-comment line of text will be used as title and H1-Header. * The lines following will be used for headers formatted as H2, H3, H4, H5. * == - End of headers. The next line of text will be shown as "normal" text. <
>Normal text gets wrapped in

-tags. * -- - Section break = Horizontal line. The next line of text will be shown as a H3-header. * Textstyles: **bold** //italic// __underline__ %%centered%% * Lines starting with a blank:

 = preformated
   * Lines starting with "*":  = unnumbered list
   * A line with a single "_":   = blank line


***Features***
   * Comments, ,  are extensions to the "basic operation" of the converter.
   * Some more chars are replaced with html-entities (ÄÖÜ, etc.)
   * Textsize, line-height, margins, padding are set to minimal, to fit as much text on a page as possible.
   * light background-colors, to show the structure of the text. And make it easier to spot errors...
   * Pagebreak is a CSS-feature that only works when printing.


***Quirks***
   * Bold/italic/underline: currently, only the first occurrence of these gets rendered 
   * Center: uses the obsolete tag "". <
>Also, I wanted the markup as "^^center^^", but ^ is a very special char...
   * unnumbered-lists: only first level is supported for now.
   * no ordered-lists: I have no plans for them, and I wanted "#" as comment-char.
   * H6: was reused as page-break, so it cannot be used as a normal header.

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'''See also:'''
   * [Printing text files under Windows]
   * [How do I read and write files in Tcl]
   * [Additional file commands]
   * [Text processing tips]
   * [awk]
   * https://css-tricks.com/almanac/properties/p/page-break/
   * [..]

   
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