Hi,
Some time ago, someone was enquiring about software that will make
a pretty calendar complete with certain events. I forget the ultimate
outcome of that exchange, but in case anyone is still interested,
there is the 'pcal' program:
Package: pcal
Priority: optional
Section: utils
Installed-Size: 268
Maintainer: Camm Maguire <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Architecture: powerpc
Version: 4.7-8
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.2.4-4), libpaperg
Filename: pool/main/p/pcal/pcal_4.7-8_powerpc.deb
Size: 116310
MD5sum: 21003c80aa1efb6bb3be14d2426b9206
Description: Makes printable Postscript calendars without X.
"Pcal" is a program to print PostScript calendars for any month and year.
By default, it looks for a file in the home directory named "calendar"
for entries with leading dates matching dates on the calendar, and prints
any following text under the appropriate day.
I printed out one of its calendars and it looks fantastic but there
is only one (small) set back preventing this application being used
with gnomecal and evolution: the format of the data file that houses
the calendar events is very different. From pcal(1):
Dates in the .calendar file may be expressed in any of
several formats:
<ordinal> <day_spec> in <month_spec>{*} {<text>}
{<ordinal>} <day_spec> <prep> <date_spec>{*} {<text>}
<date_spec>{*} {<text>}
<holiday>
Evolution and gnomecal, however, use the iCalendar format and now
with libical[1], a fairly small translation of pcal's native parser to
use libical and convert the iCalendar events to something pcal can
work with seems rather easy and straight-forward.
Evolution, btw, is able to generate a mean looking postscript
calendar all ready, so perhaps the above-mentioned modification is not
called for but perhaps someone will find this newsworthy.
Elizabeth
[1] <http://softwarestudio.org/libical/>
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