Selecting a printer for the hardcopy command in E-L

Glenn Holloway (holloway@endor.harvard.edu)
Fri, 14 Feb 1997 17:30:48 -0500


The default printer used by e-l-cs254 for the hardcopy command
is `lw', the HP printer near the Aiken fishbowl. (It is now,
anyway. I changed it a few minutes ago.)

For obscure reasons, it doesn't work to select an alternative
printer by providing a switch when M-x hardcopy asks for some.
If you prefer a different printer, make a .e-l-init.el file
in your home directory and put a line like this in it:

(setq hardcopy-command "lpr -Plwsparc")

where `lwsparc' is the alternative printer name. E-L will
read-and-eval .e-l-init.el when it starts up. To achieve the
same effect in an E-L session that's already running, do

M-x set-variable
hardcopy-command
"lpr -Plwsparc"

(You need to type the quote marks in the last line.)

To get a PostScript file from an E-L document artifact, use
the M-x ps-file command.

Glenn