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PCAL(1)				 USER COMMANDS			       PCAL(1)

NAME
       pcal - generate PostScript (or HTML) calendars

SYNOPSIS
       pcal [-e|-f cal] [-o file] [-l | -p] [-P [letter | legal | a4 |
	    tabloid]] [-j | -J] [-m | -M] [-g weekday[-weekday]|all|holiday]
	    [-O weekday[-weekday]|all|holiday] [-G weekday[-weekday]|all|holi‐
	    day] [-b weekday[-weekday]|all|holiday] [-s [day_numer‐
	    ics_color][/empty_day_box_fill_color]] [-F day] [-A|-E]
	    [-X xtrans] [-Y ytrans] [-x xscale] [-y yscale]
	    [-t [title_font][/size]] [-d [day_font][/size]]
	    [-n [text_font][/size]] [-L footer_str] [-C footer_str]
	    [-R footer_str] [-N notes_str] [-D symbol] [-U symbol] [-B] [-# n]
	    [-S | -k | -K] [-w] [-I] [-c | -H] [-q] [-z time_zone]
	    [-h | -u | -v] [-a output_language] [-r [mapping] [-T [B|I|R]]
	    [-W [left|center|right]] [month] [year] [nmonths]

DESCRIPTION
       Pcal generates PostScript to produce landscape or portrait calendars
       for any month and year.	The arguments month, year, and nmonths, if
       provided, should be numeric.  The month value should be in the range 1
       - 12, and the year value should be specified as 1 or 2 digits (in which
       case it will be interpreted as that year in the current century) or as
       the full 4-digit year.  If no numeric arguments are provided, the cal‐
       endar for the current month and year will be generated.

       If one numeric argument is provided, it is interpreted as the year
       value, and calendars for the entire year will be generated.  Otherwise,
       nmonths months, starting with month and year, will be generated.

       For whole-year calendars (i.e. when the -w option is given), the com‐
       mand line arguments are interpreted somewhat differently.  By default,
       all months in the current year are printed, starting with January.  If
       the month argument alone is given, it is expected to be the desired
       year to print, and prints all of the months in the given year.  If both
       month and year are given, then 12 consecutive months are printed start‐
       ing at the given month and year.	 If the month, year, and nmonths argu‐
       ments are all present, printing begins with the given month and year
       and nmonths months are printed, rounded up to the nearest multiple of
       12.

   The Date File (Configuration File)
       By default, pcal simply prints an empty calendar.  Its real power is in
       its ability to place ``events'' (and, for monthly-format PostScript
       calendars, Encapsulated PostScript images [e.g. photos and icons]) in
       appropriate days on the (PostScript or HTML) calendar, thus allowing
       the user to create personalized calendars.  This is achieved through
       the use of the ``date file'', also known as the ``configuration file''.

       The default date/configuration file is expected to be named .calendar
       (pcal.dat under MS-DOS), or calendar for compatibility with older ver‐
       sions.  Pcal will look in several places for such a file.  First, if
       the environment variable PCAL_DIR is defined, pcal searches the direc‐
       tory indicated by that variable.	 Next, pcal searches the user's home
       directory (as specified by the HOME environment variable).  If neither
       PCAL_DIR nor HOME is defined, pcal searches the current directory
       instead.	 Finally, if enabled (via the `SEARCH_PCAL_DIR' flag) when
       pcal was built, the directory where the pcal executable resides will be
       checked.	 If no date file is found, an empty calendar is printed; no
       error is generated.

       Alternatively, the name of the date file (and, optionally, the path
       where it can be found) can be specified using the -f command-line
       option.	See the OPTIONS section for more details.

       Every pcal distribution comes with an 'examples' directory.  The `pcal-
       cfg.txt' file that is located there contains a myriad of examples of
       settings that can be used in your own configuration file.  Please check
       it out for lots of useful ideas.	 Furthermore, that directory contains
       several language/country-specific examples (including holiday and other
       event definitions) in various `calendar_xx.txt' files, where `xx' rep‐
       resents the 2-letter language code (e.g. 'calendar_de.txt' is the Ger‐
       man example file).

       If a date file is found, it will be searched for lines with leading
       dates matching the requested month and year.

       Any text following the dates found will be printed on the calendar
       under the appropriate day of the month.	Encapsulated PostScript (EPS)
       images are handled similarly as described in a later subsection.

       troff-style escape sequences \fB, \fI, \fP, and \fR may be used to set
       the font style to Bold, Italic, the previous font style, or Roman
       respectively.  For those more familiar with HTML, <B>, <I>, </B>, and
       </I> may be used instead to enable/disable Bold or Italic font styles.
       The font style is reset to Roman after each line break.

       Using the `include' pre-processor directive (described in the section
       entitled `Pre-Processor Functionality', below), other configuration
       files can be processed from within an existing configuration file.
       That is, you can `nest' configuration files as needed.

       Dates (essentially `events') in the configuration files 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>}

	      · <pre_defined_event>{*} {<text>}

       Where:

	    <month_name>     := first 3+ characters of name of month, or
			     ``all''

			     Note: pcal looks for names of the days of the
			     week prior to names of months when parsing event
			     date specifications.  Furthermore, some languages
			     (e.g. French and Finnish) have a month name whose
			     first 3 letters are the same as the first 3 let‐
			     ters of one of the names of the days of the week.
			     Because of this, the specification in such a lan‐
			     guage of any month name which collides thusly
			     must use 4 or more letters to distinguish it from
			     the name of the day of the week with which it
			     `collides'.

	    <month_spec>     := <month_name>, or ``year''

	    <day_spec>	     := first 3+ characters of name of weekday,
			     ``day'', ``weekday'', ``workday'', ``holiday'',
			     ``nonweekday'', ``nonworkday'', ``nonholiday'',
			     ``new_moon'', ``first_quarter'', ``full_moon'',
			     or ``last_quarter''

	    <ordinal>	     := any ordinal number (``1st'', ``2nd'', etc.),
			     ``first'' ... ``fifth'', ``last'', ``odd'',
			     ``even'', or ``all''

	    <prep>	     := ``on'', ``before'', ``preceding'', ``after'',
			     ``following'', ``on_or_before'' (``oob''),
			     ``on_or_after'' (``ooa''), ``nearest'', ``near‐
			     est_before``, or ``nearest_after``

	    <pre_defined_event>
			     := ``Christmas'', ``Thanksgiving'', ``Easter'',
			     ``Good_Friday'', ``GEaster'' (Orthodox Easter),
			     ``Gstgeorge'' (Orthodox holiday), and ``Gmarcus''
			     (Orthodox holiday).

	    <sep>	     := one or more non-numeric, non-space, non-`*'
			     characters

	    <month>	     := a numeric month (1-12)

	    <day>	     := day of month (1-31)

	    <year>	     := a numeric year

	    <text>	     := the text to be displayed for this event; if
			     the text begins with the constant string
			     ``image:'', then it is interpreted as a specifi‐
			     cation of an Encapsulated PostScript (EPS) image
			     rather than as simple text; more information on
			     specifying EPS images is available in a later
			     section of this document

       If the -A option (American date formats, the default) is given:

	    <date_spec>	     := <month_name> <day> |
			     <month><sep><day>{<sep><year>}

       If the -E option (European date formats) is given:

	    <date_spec>	     := <day> <month_name> | <day> <month> |
			     <day><sep><month>{<sep><year>}

       The ``Notes'' box (see below) uses the first of the current month as
       the default date.  All footer strings use the first of the current
       month in single-month mode and the first of the starting month in
       whole-year mode.

       Examples:

	    last Monday in May*		Memorial Day Holiday

	    all Fridays in Oct		Status Meeting, 11 AM
	    first workday in all	%-B progress report due
	    all Fri in all		\fBTime card due,\fP 3 PM
	    all Monday in all		Fiscal week %0W
	    -2nd workday in all		Schedule for %+B due %+2D
	    2nd full_moon in all	Blue Moon
	    Fri on_or_before all 15	Pay Day
	    even Fridays in year	Pay Day
	    183rd day of year		Mid-year (%l days left)

	    Tue after first Mon in Nov	Election Day (USA)

	    4th Thu in Nov*		Thanksgiving
	    Fri after 4th Thu in Nov*	Day after Thanksgiving
	    workday nearest 12/25*	Holiday

	    12/25/04*			Christmas     # American
	    25.12.04*			Christmas     # European
	    25. 12.*			Christmas     # European

	    Dec 25*			Christmas     # American
	    25 Dec*			Christmas     # European
	    25. Dec*			Christmas     # European

	    Fri on all 13		Avoid black cats!   # 'Friday the 13th'

       Any non-numeric character may separate numeric dates.  Holidays may be
       flagged by following the date immediately with `*' as in the examples
       above; this will cause the date numerics to be printed in the color
       specified by the -s option (default = gray) and will cause the associ‐
       ated text (on monthly-format calendars) to be placed adjacent to the
       numeric date in the day box rather than below the numeric date (as is
       done for all non-holiday events).  ``Each'' and ``every'' are accepted
       as synonyms for ``all'', and any word may be used in place of ``in''.
       The abbreviations ``oob'' and ``ooa'' may be used in place of the key‐
       words ``on_or_before'' and ``on_or_after'', respectively.  ``Nearest''
       attempts to match the specified date; if that fails, it tries the day
       after, then the day before, then two days after, two days before, and
       so forth until a match occurs.

       Wildcard day names are also provided.  The keyword ``weekday'' applies
       to any days which are normally printed in "logical black" - the predom‐
       inant day color - on the calendar.  The keyword ``workday'' is the
       same, but does not include any holidays.	 The keyword ``holiday''
       includes only those days flagged as holidays.  The keywords ``nonweek‐
       day'', ``nonworkday'', and ``nonholiday'' are also recognized as nega‐
       tions of the above.  See the CAVEATS below for important notes on using
       these keywords.	Moon phases may also appear as wildcards; ``nm'' is
       accepted as a synonym for ``new_moon'', ``1q'' and ``fq'' for
       ``first_quarter'', ``fm'' for ``full_moon'', ``3q'' for ``third_quar‐
       ter'', and ``lq'' for ``last_quarter''.

       Ordinal day numbers may be used to specify dates, either relative to
       the month or to the year.  Either words or numeric abbreviations may be
       used for ``first'' through ``fifth''; higher numbers must be given
       using the numeric equivalent (e.g. 100th).  Negative ordinal numbers
       may even be used.  For example, ``-2nd'' means ``next to last''.

       ``Odd'' and ``even'' do not refer to the actual date; instead, ``odd''
       means ``alternate, starting with the first'', and ``even'' means
       ``alternate, starting with the second''.	 Thus, ``odd Fridays in
       March'' refers to the first, third, and (if present) fifth Fridays in
       March — not to those Fridays falling on odd dates.

       ``All'' refers to each individual month; ``year'' refers to the year as
       an entity.  Thus ``odd Fridays in all'' refers to the first, third, and
       fifth Friday of each month, while ``odd Fridays in year'' refers to the
       first Friday of January and every other Friday thereafter.

       ``Nearest'', ``nearest_before'', and ``nearest_after'' refer to the
       nearest weekday or wildcard day with respect to the specified date.
       ``Nearest_before'' and ``nearest_after'' allow the user to specify how
       pcal is to disambiguate between two dates that are equally near: e.g.,
       ``nonweekday nearest_before [Wed.] 9/25/96'' refers to Sunday, 9/22
       while ``nonweekday nearest_after 9/25/96'' refers to Saturday, 9/28.
       (Note that ``nearest_before'' and ``nearest_after'' are equivalent to
       ``nearest'' when no such ambiguity exists: e.g., ``nonweekday near‐
       est_before [Thu.] 9/26/96'' refers to Saturday, 9/28.)

       Text in the date file may use C-like escape sequences (i.e. a `\' fol‐
       lowed by a character, 1 - 3 octal digits, or `x' followed by 1 - 2
       hexadecimal digits).  Escaped whitespace (including newline ) and the
       standard ANSI character escapes (`\a', `\b', `\f', `\n', `\r', `\t',
       `\v') are all replaced by a single blank.

       The HTML special characters `<' `>' `"' `&' ` ' and
       `&#NNN;' (NNN = any three decimal digits) are also supported.  These
       will be propagated intact (be sure to escape the `#' in `&#NNN;') if
       the output is specified as HTML (see the -H flag); otherwise they will
       be converted to their ASCII equivalents.	 This allows a common date
       file to be used regardless of whether the desired output format is
       HTML, PostScript, or Un*x calendar(1) (see the -c flag) input.

       Lines in the configuration file consisting of year #### (where #### is
       a numeric year) can be used to set the year for following entries.
       This assumes that the following entries do not contain a year; any date
       entries containing year information will set the remembered year to
       that year.

       Lines in the configuration file consisting of year all (or, alterna‐
       tively, year *) direct pcal to wildcard following entries against every
       applicable year.	 This assumes that the following entries do not con‐
       tain a year; any date entries containing year information (or an
       explicit year #### entry) will set the remembered year to that year.

       Lines in the configuration file consisting of opt <options> can be used
       to override the defaults for any command-line options except -c, -e,
       -f, -h, -H, -u, -v, -D, and -U.	Any options specified in this manner
       are, in turn, overridden by those specified explicitly on the command
       line.

       Lines in the configuration file consisting of note{/<number>} <month>
       can be used to place notes regarding the entire month in one of the
       unused blocks of the calendar.  The <month> indicator may be either a
       number 1 through 12 or an alphabetic month name as described above;
       ``note all'' will place the associated text in the notes block for each
       month in the current year.  <number> is an optional positive or nega‐
       tive number specifying the empty box where the associated text is to be
       placed.	If positive, pcal counts forward from the first empty box; if
       negative, pcal counts backward from the last empty box.	Thus,
       ``note/1'' places the associated text in the first empty box; note/-3
       in the third-to-last.  The default is -1 if no <number> is given (last
       empty box, immediately preceding the small calendars on the bottom row;
       cf.  -S, -k, and -K, below).  You can place several notes in the same
       box.  You can also use more than 1 box for the various monthly notes.

       Lines in the configuration file consisting of input-language XX (where
       XX is the 2-letter specification for any of the supported languages)
       can be used to set the language used for interpretation of the month
       names and day-of-week names for the remaining event entries.  This
       option may be specified more than once, as needed, if the language used
       to describe events changes within the file.  For backwards compatibil‐
       ity, the default value for `input language' if this directive is never
       used is 'en' (English).	Note that this directive is distinct from the
       specification of 'output language' as accomplished with the -a option.

       Comments are supported in the configuration file.  Any characters fol‐
       lowing a `#' character are ignored, through the end of that line,
       unless the `#' character is escaped by `\'.

   Deleting Events
       By prepending the `delete' keyword to an event specification, one or
       more events may be deleted from a set of previously-specified events.

       For example, the following lines might appear in the date file:

	      all Friday in all	 Poker game
	      delete first Friday in all  Poker game

       This results in an event labeled `Poker game' on every Friday except
       the first Friday of the month.  If you delete an entry which is marked
       as a holiday, the `holiday' flag for that day will be recalculated.
       Any `delete' entries which don't match any pre-existing entries are
       silently ignored.

   Format Specifiers
       Pcal allows format specifiers in both the event text and footer strings
       (see the -L, -C, -R, and -N options below). Each format specifier will
       be replaced by a corresponding string as outlined in the following ta‐
       ble:

	    %a	 abbreviated weekday
	    %A	 full weekday
	    %b	 abbreviated month name
	    %B	 full month name
	    %d	 day of month (1-31)
	    %j	 day of year (1-366)
	    %l	 days left in year (0-365)
	    %m	 month (1-12)
	    %U	 week number (0-53)
	    %W	 week number (0-53)
	    %u	 week number (1-54)
	    %w	 week number (1-54)
	    %y	 year w/o century (00-99)
	    %Y	 year w/century
	    %%	 `%' character

	    %o	 print number as ordinal
	    %0	 print number with leading zeroes
	    %+	 use following month or year
	    %-	 use previous month or year
	    %{+N}[DWMY]	   adjust date by +N days/weeks/months/years
	    %{-N}[DWMY]	   adjust date by -N days/weeks/months/years

       Most of these are derived from the ANSI C strftime() function, but the
       %[louwMD] and %[o0+-] format specifiers are specific to pcal.

       The %u specifier considers the week containing 1/1 (Jan 1st) as week 1
       and the following logical Sunday (the first day of the week as printed;
       cf. the -F option below) as the start of week 2; %U considers the first
       logical Sunday as the first day of week 1.  %w and %W behave like %u
       and %U respectively, but use the first logical Monday instead.  Note
       that %w has a different meaning from strftime().

       The %o format specifier prints a number as an ordinal, with the appro‐
       priate suffix (``st'', ``nd'', ``rd'', or ``th'' in English) appended.
       For example, %od prints the day of the month as ``1st'', ``2nd'',
       ``3rd'', etc.

       Unlike strftime(), pcal defaults to printing numbers (except %y) with‐
       out leading zeroes.  If leading zeroes are desired, the `0' prefix may
       be used.	 For example, %0j prints the first day of year as ``001''.

       The %+ and %- format specifiers direct pcal to substitute the follow‐
       ing/previous month/year in the following [bBmyY] specifier.  For exam‐
       ple, %+B prints the name of the next month.

       The %{[+-]N}[DWMY] format specifiers do not print anything, but instead
       adjust the working date by ± Ndays (D), weeks (W), months (M), or years
       (Y).  Subsequent format specifiers use the adjusted date instead of the
       current date.  For example, %+1M %B %Y adjusts the date forward by one
       month and then prints the resulting month and year (``January 1992'' in
       December, 1991); %-2W %b %d adjusts the date backward by two weeks and
       prints the resulting month and day (``Jul 26'' on August 9).

       Such date adjustments are normally cumulative; for example, %+1Y%-1D
       adjusts the date forward by one year and then backward by one day.  If
       %D or %M is specified alone (or if N is zero), pcal restores the origi‐
       nal date.  Note that %M has a different meaning to the strftime() func‐
       tion.

       Here's a common, useful example of an event entry for the pcal date
       file which combines the ability to adjust working dates and the ability
       to display ordinals.  This particular example is used to display text
       on the birthday of a person born in 1991:

	      May 10 Eric's %-1991Y%oY Birthday

       That entry would result in the following text being displayed on May
       10, 2005:

	      Eric's 14th Birthday

   Encapsulated PostScript (EPS) Images
       For monthly PostScript calendars only, pcal supports the embedding of
       one or more EPS images (photos, icons, etc) into any given day of the
       month.  (EPS image specifications in the pcal date file are ignored for
       yearly PostScript calendars and for all HTML calendars.)

       In order to associate an image with a given event, you must add one or
       more entries to the date file.  The event date is specified exactly as
       described previously for simple event text specification lines.	How‐
       ever, instead of specifying the text associated with the event, you
       instead specify the EPS image filename and some additional parameters
       in the following format:

	    image:<EPS-image-filename> <x-scale> <y-scale> <x-delta> <y-delta>

       Where:

	    <EPS-image-filename>   is the filename (which can include a path)
				   of the Encapsulated PostScript image.
				   Note: The EPS image filename must be pre‐
				   ceded by the constant text `image:' in
				   order to distinguish an EPS image specifi‐
				   cation from an ordinary event text specifi‐
				   cation.

	    <x-scale>		   is a scaling factor in the horizontal
				   dimension for the EPS image.	 A value of
				   1.0 is nominal (i.e. no change to image
				   scale).  Values between 0.0 and 1.0 shrink
				   the image in the horizontal dimension while
				   values over 1.0 expand the image in the
				   horizontal dimension.  Generally speaking,
				   only positive values should be used.	 How‐
				   ever, in the rare case that you find that
				   your EPS image needs to be flipped about
				   the vertical axis (i.e. left to right), you
				   can use a negative value to achieve this
				   without having to tweak the actual Post‐
				   Script content within the EPS image file.
				   Use of a negative value will undoubtedly
				   necessitate a corresponding change to the
				   <x-delta> parameter to account for the
				   image's relocated position that occurs when
				   it gets flipped "left-to-right".

	    <y-scale>		   is a scaling factor in the vertical dimen‐
				   sion for the EPS image.  Values between 0.0
				   and 1.0 shrink the image in the vertical
				   dimension while values over 1.0 expand the
				   image in the vertical dimension.  Note that
				   a negative value for this parameter can be
				   useful in the less-than-rare case that you
				   find that your EPS image needs to be
				   flipped about the horizontal axis (i.e. top
				   to bottom).	In such cases, you can use a
				   negative <y-scale> value to achieve this
				   without having to tweak the actual Post‐
				   Script content within the EPS image file.
				   Use of a negative value will undoubtedly
				   necessitate a corresponding change to the
				   <y-delta> parameter to account for the
				   image's relocated position that occurs when
				   it gets flipped "upside down".

	    <x-delta>		   := a horizontal adjustment in typographic
				   `points' (i.e. 72nds of an inch) for the
				   positioning of the EPS image.  With offsets
				   of 0 for X and Y, the image will be printed
				   at the extreme left edge of the box for
				   that day, just under the numerics for that
				   day.	 Positive values move the image to the
				   right and negative values move the image to
				   the left.

	    <y-delta>		   := a vertical adjustment in typographic
				   `points' (i.e. 72nds of an inch) for the
				   positioning of the EPS image.  With offsets
				   of 0 for X and Y, the image will be printed
				   at the extreme left edge of the box for
				   that day, just under the numerics for that
				   day.	 Positive values move the image up and
				   negative values move the image down.

       Here's an example of a line from the date file that associates an EPS
       image with an event:

	    4th Thu in Nov*   Thanksgiving
	    4th Thu in Nov*   image:/eps-path/turkey.eps 1.0 1.0 0 0

       You can place as many images as you want on a single day of the month
       by specifying repeated lines in the date file.  For example, these
       lines put icons of George Washington and Abraham Lincoln on the day of
       the U.S. ``Presidents' Day'' holiday, along with the event text:

	    3rd Monday in Feb*	 Presidents' Day
	    3rd Monday in Feb*	 image:/eps-path/washington.eps 0.08 0.08 8 0
	    3rd Monday in Feb*	 image:/eps-path/lincoln.eps 0.22 0.22 48 0

       Note that the icon for Lincoln is shifted to the right by 48 typo‐
       graphic points so as not to overlay the first icon.

       The pcal releases come with a single EPS sample file ('eps/recy‐
       cle.eps') of the ubiquitous 'recycle' icon (3 green arrows in a trian‐
       gular shape).  Such an image might be used with configuration file set‐
       tings like this:

	    second Sat in all RECYCLE!
	    second Sat in all image:/eps-path/recycle.eps 0.039 0.039 34 -9

       In cases where you're displaying non-holiday event text (e.g. someone's
       birthday) and an EPS image, you'll often need to use a negative `Y-
       delta' value on the EPS image specification line, in order to shift the
       image down so that it doesn't cover the event text, which appears just
       below the day's numerics for non-holiday events.	 (Text for holiday
       events appears higher up, to the right of the day's numerics, so
       there's usually no collision with the EPS image.)

       Note: Unfortunately, most EPS images cannot be used directly by pcal.

	      Depending on the EPS image used and how it was created, you may
	      have to remove or comment out some or all of the PostScript
	      `translate' commands, in order to avoid the use of illogical X-
	      delta and Y-delta values when specifying the EPS image in your
	      pcal date file. Most programs that generate EPS output (either
	      directly or via conversion from some other graphic format) seem
	      to have these `translate' commands relatively early in the EPS
	      file.

	      It may take some experimentation to get it just right.  Preview
	      the pcal output using a PostScript viewer as you tweak the Post‐
	      Script commands in the EPS image file and/or the event entry in
	      the pcal date file.

		     Note: Depending upon what application you use to preview
		     PostScript content, the monthly calendars may not show
		     any embedded EPS images.  Here's a rundown of some popu‐
		     lar PostScript-viewing applications and whether they cor‐
		     rectly display the embedded EPS images:

			    · gv (version 3.5.8) -- EPS images appear fine

			    · ggv (versions 2.4.0.1 and 2.6.1) -- EPS images
			      appear fine

			    · older kghostview (versions 0.13.2 [KDE 3.1.4]
			      and 0.2.0 [KDE 3.2.3 and 3.3.2]) -- EPS images
			      DO NOT APPEAR!

			    · newer kghostview (version 0.2.0 [KDE 3.4.2 and
			      3.5.4]) -- EPS images appear fine

       For converting non-EPS images (e.g. photos) to EPS format, one can use
       the graphical GNU Image Manipulation Program, a.k.a. `The GIMP':

	      http://www.gimp.org

       For icons/images in WMF format (which are popular in various 3rd-party,
       legacy-OS, commercial calendar programs), the `libwmf'/`wmf2eps'
       library/utility is useful for generating pcal-capable EPS images.  It
       can be found at this site:

	      http://wvware.sourceforge.net/libwmf.html

       For icons/images in SVG format, the ImageMagick `convert' utility is
       sometimes useful for generating pcal-capable EPS images.	 This suite of
       utilities (which includes other useful ImageMagick utilities like `dis‐
       play' and `identify') may already be available on your Linux distribu‐
       tion.  If not, it can be found at this site:

	      http://www.imagemagick.org

       For cases where ImageMagick's `convert' utility fails to properly con‐
       vert SVG-format images to EPS format, you can try the method of con‐
       verting the SVG image into an intermediate format (e.g. PNG) using the
       `rsvg' utility.	This utility may already be available on your Linux
       distribution.  If not, it can be found at this site:

	      http://librsvg.sourceforge.net/

       From the PNG format, the image can often then be successfully converted
       to EPS format, using the above-mentioned ImageMagick `convert' utility.

       The Open Clip Art Library is a good source of freely-usable images
       (many of which are in SVG format) for decorating your events:

	      http://www.openclipart.org

       Note: The EPS image content is not generated in the PostScript output
       -- only a reference to the EPS image filename is generated.  From a
       practical standpoint, this means that normally you'll need to
       print/preview the PostScript output of pcal from the same computer/set‐
       up as that which was used to run pcal in the first place.  If you want
       to generate a calendar with embedded EPS images that will later be
       printed/viewed on another machine which does not have access to those
       EPS images, you'll need to run the output through a pre-processor which
       will put the EPS image content into the PostScript output file.	For
       example, assuming your initial calendar output was generated to a file
       named `pcal.ps', on most GNU/Linux systems you could run this command,
       which uses the popular `Ghostscript' interpreter:

	      gs -r300x300 -dBATCH -dNOPAUSE -sDEVICE=pswrite -sOutput‐
	      File=out.ps pcal.ps

       This would generate a PostScript file named `out.ps', at 300x300 dpi
       resolution, which has the actual EPS image content embedded within,
       allowing you to transport the `out.ps' file to another computer for
       viewing/printing.  Of course, the new file is substantially larger, but
       it's portable. Furthermore, the EPS images will be viewable even in
       PostScript-viewing applications (see above) which don't properly sup‐
       port the display of embedded (by filename only) EPS images.

   Pre-Processor Functionality
       Pcal supports rudimentary cpp-like functionality in the date file,
       allowing the following constructs:

	      · define | undef

	      · if{{n}def} ... {elif ...}* {else ...} endif

	      · include

       Note that these are not preceded by `#' as they are in C.

       Symbol names defined using these keywords (or via the -D option) are
       case-insensitive.  It is not an error to undef an undefined symbol, nor
       to define a previously-defined one.

       A symbol can be defined with just a name (e.g. ``define MY_SYM'') or it
       can take on a value (e.g. ``define MY_SYM SOME_VALUE'').	 Use of symbol
       values is convenient for defining a starting date then using that sym‐
       bol to reference that starting date in one or more events.  For exam‐
       ple, these definitions in the date file might be useful:

	    define semester_start 8/23	 # Beginning of semester
	    semester_start		   Class Start
	    7th	 day after semester_start  1st Quiz
	    14th day after semester_start  2nd Quiz
	    undef semester_start

       Be aware that the substitution of symbol values for symbol names is not
       robust, so it's wise to use a symbol name that's unlikely to occur in
       any of your other event text.  In other words, if you defined the `se‐
       mester_start' symbol in the example above as merely `start', then you'd
       get the undesired effect of having the text `Class 8/23' in your calen‐
       dar on that day instead of `Class Start'!  The use of `undef semes‐
       ter_start' in the above example is optional and is really only useful
       to prevent any unwanted symbol substitutions later on, which probably
       won't happen unless you poorly choose your symbol name to begin with.

       An ifdef alone is always false; an ifndef alone is always true.	if is
       accepted as a synonym for ifdef.

       The name of the file in the include directive may optionally be sur‐
       rounded by either "" or <>, both of which are ignored.  If the name is
       not an absolute path, it is taken to be relative to the directory where
       the file containing the directive is located.  If the string "%y"
       appears in the file name, it is replaced by the last two digits of the
       current year or, if "year all" is in effect, is expanded to all appli‐
       cable years.  Pcal is smart enough to translate ~/ to the user's home
       directory.

       Pcal normally terminates immediately if the file specified in an
       include directive does not exist.  An alternate form of the directive,
       include?, directs pcal to continue silently if the file does not exist
       or cannot be opened.

       In addition to pre-processing keywords, pcal also accepts boolean
       expressions in if{{n}def} and elif directives.  These expressions con‐
       sist of symbol names joined by the boolean operators !, &, ^, and |, in
       order of precedence, high to low.  Parentheses may be used to alter the
       precedence.  The synonyms && and || are accepted for & and |.  A symbol
       name evaluates to true if currently defined, false if not; thus:

	    ifdef A | B | C

       ...is true if any of the symbols A, B, and C is defined, and:

	    ifdef A & B & C

       ...is true if they all are.  Note that ifndef <expr> is equivalent to
       ifdef !( <expr> ).

   The Moon File
       If a file of the name .moon## (moon##.dat under MS-DOS), where ## is
       the last two digits of the calendar year, exists in the same directory
       as the date file (or in the directory where pcal resides), pcal uses
       the information contained within to calculate the phase of the moon.
       If a) no such file exists, b) the -e flag (do not use a date file) is
       specified, or c) the -z flag (specify time zone) is specified, then
       pcal uses an algorithm to calculate the phase of the moon.

       Entries in the moon file must conform to the following syntax:

       If the -A option (American date formats, the default) is given:

	    <quarter> <month><sep><day> {<hour><sep><min>}

       If the -E option (European date formats) is given:

	    <quarter> <day><sep><month> {<hour><sep><min>}

       Where:

	    <quarter> := ``nm'', ``fq'' or ``1q'', ``fm'', ``3q'' or ``lq'' (new moon,
			   first quarter, full moon, last quarter)
	    <hour>	   := number 0-23 (24-hour clock)
	    <min>	   := number 0-59

       This file must contain entries for all quarter moons in the year, in
       chronological order; if any errors are encountered, pcal will revert to
       using its default algorithm.

       As in the date file, comments start with `#' and run through the end of
       the given line.

       The moon file may optionally contain an opt -A or opt -E line to spec‐
       ify the format of its own date entries independently of the format used
       in the date file.  No other flags are legal in the moon file.

   Generating PostScript Calendars Via A Web Browser Interface
       PostScript-format pcal calendars can be generated and viewed from a web
       browser interface.

	      Note: This is not to be confused with the ability to generate
	      non-PostScript, HTML-format (using the -H command-line option)
	      calendars, which is a different capability entirely.

       Pcal comes with 4 files that provide this ability: `pcal.cgi' (a Bourne
       shell script), `pcal.pl' (a Perl equivalent of `pcal.cgi'),
       `pcal.html', and `pcalw.html'.

       The CGI file (either `pcal.cgi' or `pcal.pl') must be edited before
       using it. Change the definition for `pcal=' (Bourne shell script) or
       `my $PCAL =' (Perl script) to point to the location of the pcal exe‐
       cutable file.  Change the definition for `file=' (Bourne shell script)
       or `my $FILE =' (Perl script) to point to the location of the pcal
       `date file' (e.g. `.calendar'), which contains the options for running
       pcal.  Finally, copy the `pcal.cgi' (or `pcal.pl') file to the location
       where your web server expects to find such files (e.g. `/var/www/cgi-
       bin/').

       The `pcal.html' and `pcalw.html' files must also be edited.  Each one
       has a line like this:

	      <FORM ACTION="http://yourpath/cgi-bin/pcal.cgi" METHOD=GET>

       That line must be edited to point to the host and location of your CGI
       script file (`pcal.cgi' or `pcal.pl').

       Once that's done, point your web browser to the `pcal.html' or
       `pcalw.html' file to generate monthly/yearly PostScript calendars for
       viewing within your web browser.

	      Note: Depending upon what application your web browser spawns to
	      preview PostScript content, the monthly calendars generated via
	      this web browser interface may not show any embedded EPS images.
	      For a rundown of some popular PostScript-viewing applications
	      and whether they correctly display the embedded EPS images, see
	      the section (above) entitled `Encapsulated PostScript (EPS)
	      Images'.

OPTIONS
       -e     Prints an empty calendar.	 Do not print entries from a .calendar
	      file even if one exists.

       -f cal Directs pcal to use the file name cal as the input file in place
	      of the default .calendar file.  Note that the search rules are
	      different when -f is used.  If cal is an absolute file name
	      (i.e. starting with a `/'), then pcal attempts to open only that
	      file.  Otherwise, pcal looks for cal in the current directory,
	      then in the directory indicated by the environment variable
	      PCAL_DIR (if defined), and finally, if enabled (via the
	      `SEARCH_PCAL_DIR' flag) when pcal was built, in the directory
	      where the pcal executable resides.  If the given cal file is not
	      found, an error results.

       -o file
	      Directs pcal to write the output to file instead of to stdout.

       -l     Causes the output to be in landscape mode (default).

	      Pcal predefines the symbol `ORIENTATION_LANDSCAPE' whenever
	      `landscape' page orientation is enabled.	This can be useful for
	      providing alternate values in the configuration file for EPS
	      image placement and scaling, based on the page orientation.

       -p     Causes the output to be in portrait mode.

	      Pcal predefines the symbol `ORIENTATION_PORTRAIT' whenever `por‐
	      trait' page orientation is enabled.  This can be useful for pro‐
	      viding alternate values in the configuration file for EPS image
	      placement and scaling, based on the page orientation.

       -P     Selects the paper size.  The following sizes are supported:

		     · letter — 8.5 x 11.0 inches

		     · legal — 8.5 x 14.0 inches

		     · a4 — 210 x 297 mm

		     · tabloid — 11.0 x 17.0 inches

	      Pcal predefines one of the following symbols based on the cur‐
	      rent paper size:

		     · PAPERSIZE_LETTER

		     · PAPERSIZE_LEGAL

		     · PAPERSIZE_A4

		     · PAPERSIZE_TABLOID

	      These symbol definitions can be useful for providing alternate
	      values in the configuration file for EPS image placement and
	      scaling, based on paper size.

       -j     Causes the Julian date (day of year) to be printed in each cal‐
	      endar box.

       -J     Causes the Julian date and the number of days remaining in the
	      year to be printed in each calendar box.

       -m     Causes moon icons to be printed on dates corresponding to new,
	      half, and full moons (the default is that no moons are printed).

       -M     Causes moon icons to be printed on all dates (the default is
	      that no moons are printed).

       -g day1[-day2] | all | holiday
	      Causes all dates falling on weekday day1 (through day2 if speci‐
	      fied) to be printed in the `day numerics color' (i.e. the color
	      specified by the -s option [default = gray]); -g all causes all
	      weekdays (other than holidays) to be printed in the `day numer‐
	      ics color'; -g holiday causes all holidays to be printed in `day
	      numerics color'.	day1 and day2 may wrap around weekends; for
	      example, -g fri-sun causes Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays to be
	      printed in the `day numerics color'.

       -O day1[-day2] | all | holiday
	      Similar to -g, but the selected days will be printed as outlined
	      characters, using the `day numerics color'.

       -G day1[-day2] | all | holiday
	      Similar to -g, but the selected days will be printed in the `day
	      numerics color', outlined in black.

       -b day1[-day2] | all | holiday
	      Similar to — you guessed it — -g, but the selected days will be
	      printed in black.	 Since black is the default for weekdays, -b
	      is primarily used to overriding other flags (e.g., -g all -b
	      sat-sun ).

	   Note:
	      The default for the above options is to print Saturdays, Sun‐
	      days, and holidays in the `day numerics color' and all other
	      days in black.  For backward compatibility with earlier versions
	      of pcal, -O and -G alone change all non-black days to the speci‐
	      fied color.

       -s [day_numerics_color][/empty_day_box_fill_color]
	      Overrides the default value(s) for the color of the numerics for
	      each day and/or the color of the fill used on boxes for 'empty'
	      days.  Note: This option only applies to PostScript-format cal‐
	      endars, not to HTML-format calendars.  These values may be set
	      independently of each other.  For use with non-color printers,
	      these values should be in the range 0.0 (black) through 1.0
	      (white).	The default values are 0.8 for day numerics and 0.9
	      for empty day boxes.  For use with color printers, these values
	      may optionally be specified as a set of red:green:blue (RGB)
	      values, each of which must in the range 0.0 through 1.0.	At
	      least one `:' must be present for these values to be recognized
	      as RGB colors; omitted values are set to 0.0.

	      This option may also be set semi-permanently by altering the
	      makefile (`Makefile' for most environments, 'Makefile.DOS' for
	      MS-DOS).

       -F day Selects weekday day as the first day of the week.	 The given day
	      will appear in the left-most column of the calendar.  day may be
	      specified either as a weekday name or, optionally, as a number
	      in the range 0 (Sunday) through 6 (Saturday).

	      This option may also be set semi-permanently by altering the
	      makefile (`Makefile' for most environments, 'Makefile.DOS' for
	      MS-DOS).

       -A     Directs pcal to use American date conventions ( mm/dd{/yy} and
	      month dd ) when parsing the date file.  This is the default.

	      This option may also be set semi-permanently by altering the
	      makefile (`Makefile' for most environments, 'Makefile.DOS' for
	      MS-DOS).

       -E     Directs pcal to use European date conventions ( dd/mm{/yy} and
	      dd month ) when parsing the date file.

	      This option may also be set semi-permanently by altering the
	      makefile (`Makefile' for most environments, 'Makefile.DOS' for
	      MS-DOS).

       -X xtrans
	      Specifies the x-axis translation value for positioning the out‐
	      put on the page.	Positive values shift the output to the right.
	      Negative values shift the output to the left.

       -Y ytrans
	      Specifies the y-axis translation value for positioning the out‐
	      put on the page.	Positive values shift the output up.  Negative
	      values shift the output down.

       -x xscale
	      Specifies the x-axis scaling factor for the calendar size.

       -y yscale
	      Specifies the y-axis scaling factor for the calendar size.

       -t [title_font][/size]
	      Specifies the name of a font to use for all the calendar heading
	      text:

		     · the month name and year at the top of the calendar (for
		       monthly-format calendars) or at the top of each month
		       (for yearly-format calendars and for the small previ‐
		       ous/next-month calendars [if enabled] on monthly-format
		       calendars)

		     · the day-of-week names

		     · the footer strings (if any)

		     · the ``Notes'' box heading (if any; for monthly calen‐
		       dars only)

	      For monthly calendars only, the user may optionally specify the
	      font size, which applies only to the main month/year heading.
	      For example, pcal -t Times-Roman/54 sets the font to Times-Roman
	      and the month/year point size to 54.  The font size may also be
	      changed independently: pcal -t /54 changes the point size to 54
	      without affecting the font name.

	      Note: For yearly calendars, any specification of font size is
	      ignored.

	      This option may also be set semi-permanently by altering the
	      makefile (`Makefile' for most environments, 'Makefile.DOS' for
	      MS-DOS).

       -d [date_font][/size]
	      Similar to the -t option, but selects the font and/or size used
	      for the day numerics (the numbers inside the box for each day).

	      Note: For yearly calendars, any specification of font size is
	      ignored.

	      This option may also be set semi-permanently by altering the
	      makefile (`Makefile' for most environments, 'Makefile.DOS' for
	      MS-DOS).

       -n [text_font][/size]
	      Similar to the -t and -d options, but selects the font and/or
	      size used for any `event' text associated with each day and for
	      any text in the monthly ``Notes'' box.

	      Note: This option applies to monthly calendars only. For yearly
	      calendars, this option does not apply.

	      This option may also be set semi-permanently by altering the
	      makefile (`Makefile' for most environments, 'Makefile.DOS' for
	      MS-DOS).

       -L string
	      Causes the accompanying string to be printed as a left-justified
	      footer.  Format specifiers denoting the month and/or year may
	      appear in the string; the appropriate values will be substituted
	      upon printing.

       -C string
	      Similar to -L, but causes the accompanying string to be printed
	      as a centered footer.  If the -H flag (generate calendar as HTML
	      table) was specified, this string will be used as the title and
	      heading.

       -R string
	      Similar to -L, but causes the accompanying string to be printed
	      as a right-justified footer.

       -N string
	      Causes the accompanying string to be printed as the heading for
	      the "Notes" box.	Note, however, that pcal makes no attempt to
	      ensure that it fits.

       -D symbol [value]
	      Defines the named symbol and an optional value to be associated
	      with that symbol, prior to reading the date file.

       -U symbol
	      Un-defines the named symbol prior to reading the date file.

       -B     Causes pcal to leave unused calendar day boxes blank as opposed
	      to the default behavior of filling them using the `empty day-box
	      fill color' (i.e. the color specified by the -s option [default
	      = gray]).

       -# n   Causes pcal to print n copies (maximum: 100) of each output
	      page.

       -S     Causes pcal to suppress printing the small calendars.  See the
	      CAVEATS section for further details.

       -k     Causes pcal to print the small calendars in the upper left cor‐
	      ner (the default is to print them at the lower right).

       -K     Causes pcal to print the small calendar for the previous month
	      in the upper left corner and the next month in the lower right
	      (the default is to print both at the lower right).

       -w     Causes pcal to print a calendar for 12 consecutive months: 3
	      rows / 4 columns in landscape mode, 4 rows / 3 columns in por‐
	      trait mode.  See the CAVEATS section for details on the use of
	      this option with other options.

	      Pcal predefines the symbol whole_year when the -w flag is in
	      effect, allowing directives like `ifdef whole_year' in the con‐
	      figuration file.

       -I     Resets all parameters to the program defaults.

       -c     Causes pcal to generate a date file suitable for use as input to
	      the Un*x calendar(1) utility.  The normal PostScript output is
	      suppressed.

       -H     Causes pcal to generate a calendar in HTML table format.	The
	      normal PostScript output is suppressed.

	      The HTML table format does not support moon graphics, Julian
	      date information, `day numerics' color, `empty day' `box fill'
	      color, left or right footer strings (but see the -C flag),
	      alternate fonts/sizes, transformation and scaling factors, or
	      embedded EPS images.

       -q     This option is only valid when used in conjunction with the -H
	      (generate HTML-format calendar) option.  It generates a yearly-
	      planner style of HTML calendar whereby a single column for each
	      month is used, resulting in table that gives a quicker overview
	      of several months.  Since there is less space for text, only the
	      first character of the weekday and the first 5 characters of
	      text from each event for that day are printed. The day numerics
	      for holidays are colored red but the text of the holiday event
	      is not printed.  The day numerics are grey for Saturdays and
	      bold black for Sundays.

       -z time_zone
	      Forces pcal to ignore the moon file and to use its internal
	      algorithm for moon phase calculations, adjusting the phase by
	      time_zone hours (where time_zone is expressed in hours west of
	      UTC).

	      For example, New York residents (USA Eastern time zone) would
	      use '-z 5' while on Eastern Standard Time (winter) and '-z 4'
	      while on Eastern Daylight Time (summer).	People in India would
	      use '-z-5.5'.  Notice that fractional values are allowed.

	      This option may also be set semi-permanently by altering the
	      makefile (`Makefile' for most environments, 'Makefile.DOS' for
	      MS-DOS).

       -h     Causes pcal to write version information, parameter usage mes‐
	      sage, and full explanation of options and file formats (to std‐
	      out) and terminate.

       -u     Causes pcal to write version information and parameter usage
	      message (to stdout) and terminate.

       -v     Causes pcal to write version information only (to stdout) and
	      terminate.

	      Pcal predefines the symbol vX_Y_Z, where X_Y_Z denotes the cur‐
	      rent version of Pcal (e.g. version 4.9.0 predefines the symbol
	      v4_9_0).

       -a output_language
	      Select the output language (for the names of months and days on
	      the calendar).

	      Currently, the following languages are supported: ca (Catalan),
	      cs (Czech), da (Danish), de (German), el (Greek), en (English),
	      eo (Esperanto), es (Spanish), et (Estonian), fi (Finnish), fr
	      (French), ha (Hawaiian), hu (Hungarian), it (Italian), lt
	      (Lithuanian), lv (Latvian), nl (Dutch), pl (Polish), pt (Por‐
	      tuguese), ro (Romanian), ru (Russian), sk (Slovak), sv
	      (Swedish), and uk (Ukrainian).  The default is en.

	      Note that this option does not specify the `input language',
	      which is the language used to process events in the configura‐
	      tion file ('English', by default, unless changed with the input-
	      language XX directive).  See the section The Date File for more
	      details on specifying the `input language'.

	      Note: In order to display diacritical marks, languages other
	      than English require that the characters be remapped.  Normally,
	      no action is required since pcal automatically selects a remap‐
	      ping which is appropriate to the selected language.  However, if
	      you want to override the default remapping for a given language,
	      you would use the -r option (e.g. "-r Latin1").

	      Furthermore, an appropriate font should be selected as needed
	      using the -t option (e.g. "-t some-latin1-font-name").  Any lan‐
	      guage using the "Latin1" remapping (e.g. French, German, Ital‐
	      ian, Spanish, etc) requires an ISO 8859-1 ('Latin1') font.  The
	      Greek language requires an ISO 8859-7 (similar to ELOT-928) font
	      (available from Angelo Haritsis <ah@doc.ic.ac.uk>; also see
	      http://www.hellenic.net/fonts/).	Similarly, Russian requires a
	      KOI8-R font while Ukrainian requires a KOI8-U font.

	      Pcal predefines the symbol lang_XX, where XX is the two-charac‐
	      ter abbreviation for the selected output language.

       -r [mapping]
	      Specifies an 8-bit character set remapping (encoding) for print‐
	      ing the diacritical marks common to European languages.

	      Note: This option is not usually needed since pcal will automat‐
	      ically select an appropriate default character encoding (map‐
	      ping) for the language for which the calendar is being gener‐
	      ated.

	      The value specified for mapping is case-insensitive and may be
	      abbreviated to the point where it is still unique.  The value
	      used may be any of the following:

		     · "none" (use built-in character set)

		     · "Latin1" (ISO 8859-1)

		     · "Latin2" (ISO 8859-2)

		     · "Latin3" (ISO 8859-3)

		     · "Latin4" (ISO 8859-4)

		     · "Cyrillic" (ISO 8859-5)

		     · "Greek" (ISO 8859-7)

		     · "Latin5" (ISO 8859-9)

		     · "Latin6" (ISO 8859-10)

		     · "Thai" (ISO 8859-11)

		     · "Latin7" (ISO 8859-13)

		     · "Latin8" (ISO 8859-14)

		     · "Latin9" (ISO 8859-15)

		     · "KOI8-R" (Russian)

		     · "KOI8-U" (Ukrainian)

		     · "Roman8"

	      This option may also be set semi-permanently by altering the
	      makefile (`Makefile' for most environments, 'Makefile.DOS' for
	      MS-DOS).

       -T [B|I|R]
	      Select the default typeface (Bold, Italic, or Roman) for print‐
	      ing date/note text.  This flag may be specified multiple times
	      within the date file (via "opt") to reset the font style on the
	      fly — for example, to print all holidays in Bold.

       -W [left|center|right]
	      Specify the horizontal alignment of the month/year heading
	      (left, center, right) (for monthly-format calendars only).

       Any option taking a negative value (e.g.	 -Y -###) should be specified
       with no space between the option and the (negative) value to avoid pcal
       interpreting the value as an illegal flag and aborting.	For example,
       use ` -Y-50' instead of ` -Y -50' on your option specification.

       Any option (except -G and -O, for backward-compatibility) which nor‐
       mally takes an argument may be specified without the argument in order
       to reset the value to the program default.  Note that while the -D
       option alone clears all the defined symbols, the -U option alone has no
       effect.	The - (or -- as per System V) argument may be used to disam‐
       biguate command lines such as:

	      pcal -t 9 90

       This could be written instead as one of the following:

	      pcal -t - 9 90
	      pcal -t -- 9 90

       If the environment variable PCAL_OPTS is defined, its contents are
       parsed as a command line.  Flags set via PCAL_OPTS override the program
       defaults, but are overridden by options set via opt lines in the con‐
       figuration file or explicitly on the command line.

   Additional Options For Debugging Only
       The -Z flag is used to print debugging information which is of interest
       primarily to pcal hackers.  This flag is a "hidden" flag; it does not
       appear as part of the usage message.  At present, the following options
       are supported:

	      · -ZD  print dates and text as read from date file

	      · -ZF  print date file search paths

	      · -ZM  print moon phases and identify quarters

	      · -ZO  print option flags and where set

	      · -ZP  print "preprocessor" debug info

	      · -ZT  print dates and text as written to output file

	      · -Z   turn off all debugging info

       The subflags may be combined: e.g. "-ZDF" is equivalent to "-ZD -ZF".
       All of the aforementioned debugging information is written to stderr.

CAVEATS
       · The ``workday'' and ``holiday'' keywords are aware of only those hol‐
	 idays which have already been flagged at the point where they appear.
	 For example, consider January 1990:

			  January 1990
		       S  M Tu	W Th  F	 S
			  1  2	3  4  5	 6
		       7  8  9 10 11 12 13
		      14 15 16 17 18 19 20
		      21 22 23 24 25 26 27
		      28 29 30 31

	 If the configuration file looked like this:

	    workday on_or_before all 15	  payday
	    3rd Mon in Jan*		  MLK day

	 ... then pcal would mark the 15th as ``payday'' since at that point
	 in the configuration file it has no way of knowing that January 15th
	 will later be flagged as a holiday.  If the two lines were reversed,
	 such that the holiday preceded the ``workday'' wildcard, then pcal
	 would work as intended, marking instead the 12th as ``payday''.

	 Also, beware of year boundaries which affect the handling of all of
	 the day wildcard keywords.  In general, it is best to place monthly
	 wildcards such as the example above at the end of each year to
	 achieve the desired effect.

       · Only the positive ordinals may be used in conjunction with preposi‐
	 tions (e.g. "fourth Sunday before 12/25").  (It could be argued that
	 "last Sunday before 12/25" should be accepted as a synonym for "first
	 Sunday before 12/25", but then what does "last Sunday after 12/25"
	 mean?)

       · When the -w and -p options are used together, pcal revises the y-
	 scale factor in order to use the entire portrait page; therefore, the
	 user should avoid using use the -y option when using both the -w and
	 -p options.  Use of the -w option in any case effectively disables
	 the -m, -M, -j, and -J options.

       · The output of the -c option may be used as input to subsequent runs
	 of pcal.  Note, however, that opt lines (except for an automatic opt
	 -[A|E]), comments, ``note'' text, and ifdef'd-out source will be
	 lost.

       · The -S option interacts with note{/<number>}; if used, it should be
	 specified either on the command line or prior to the first note line
	 in the date file.

SEE ALSO
       Website for pcal and lcal (a lunar calendar generation application):

	      http://pcal.sourceforge.net

       cal(1), calendar(1).

       The old, simple Unix/BSD 'calendar' program, which can be used with
       pcal and the '-c' option is part of the BSD Main Utilities ('bsdmainu‐
       tils') package and is available at the Debian site:

	      http://packages.debian.org/stable/source/bsdmainutils

       This old program does not seem to be included with most GNU/Linux dis‐
       tributions these days.

       For more information on PostScript, consult the free, online Adobe book
       entitled PostScript Language Reference Manual, which can be found here
       (as of Dec 2007):

	      http://partners.adobe.com/public/developer/ps/index_specs.html

AUTHORS
       The original PostScript code to generate the calendars was written by
       Patrick Wood (Copyright © 1987 by Patrick Wood of Pipeline Associates,
       Inc.), and authorized for modification and redistribution.  The calen‐
       dar file inclusion code was originally written in "bs(1)" by Bill Vogel
       of AT&T.	 Patrick's original PostScript was modified and enhanced sev‐
       eral times by King Ables, Tim Tessin, Joe Wood, Jeff Mogul, Mark Han‐
       son, and others whose names have regrettably been lost.	This C version
       was originally created by Ken Keirnan of Pacific Bell; additional
       enhancements by Joseph P. Larson, Ed Hand, Andrew Rogers, Mark
       Kantrowitz, Joe Brownlee, Andy Fyfe, Steve Grandi, Geoff Kuenning, Ste‐
       fan Fronzek (1-column HTML output), Bill Bogstad (event deletion capa‐
       bility), and Bill Marr (embedded EPS images, command-line paper size
       specification, new paper sizes [legal & tabloid], additional character
       mappings for new languages, and various cleanups).  The moon routines
       were originally written by Jef Poskanzer and Craig Leres, and were
       incorporated into pcal by Richard Dyson.	 International language sup‐
       port was initially added by Angelo Haritsis.  Additional languages were
       added by Andrew Rogers (Esperanto), Lars Wirzenius (Finnish), Pedro
       Zorzenon Neto (Portuguese), Joel Fredrikson (Swedish), Volodymyr M.
       Lisivka (Ukrainian), Neeme Praks (Estonian, Russian, Latvian, Lithua‐
       nian), Peter Cernoch (Czech), Ferenc Kruzslicz (Hungarian), Carles
       Sadurn� Anguita (Catalan), Dominik 'Chiron' Derlatka (Polish), Ewald
       Beekman (Dutch), Claudiu Costin (Romanian), Kenneth Geisshirt (Danish),
       Zdenko Podobny (Slovak), and Eric Nichols (Hawaiian).

Version 4.11.0			  18 Dec 2007			       PCAL(1)
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