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Pretty Printing objective C with GNU a2ps

a2ps includes a stylesheet for objective c, but it's not mapped to anything. Plus, the .m extension is mapped to "octave" files (which I guess is some music notation format system...).

To have a2ps recognise and nicely print your Objective C source files, you just need to make the following changes to /usr/share/a2ps/sheets/sheets.map

Search for "octave" and comment out those lines like so:

# octave files
#octave:	/*.octavescript/
#	/*.m/
Then add a line for objective c like so:

# objective C
objc: /*.m/
If you also want your header files to be highlighted with the objective c stylesheet (instead of the default c stylesheet), use the following entry instead:

# objective C
objc: /*.m/
      /*.h/

01:17 PM, 17 Aug 2005 by Mark Aufflick Permalink | Short Link

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