PCAL(1)

NAME
pcal - generate PostScript calendars

SYNOPSIS
pcal [-e|-f cal] [-o file] [-j | -J] [-l | -p] [-m | -M] [-g weekday[-weekday]|all|holiday] [-O weekday[-weekday]|all|holiday] [-G weekday[-weekday]|all|holiday] [-b weekday[-weekday]|all|holiday] [-s [date_shade][/fill_shade]] [-F day] [-A|-E] [-t [title_font][/size]] [-d [day_font][/size]] [-n [text_font][/size]] [-r [mapping] [-L footer_str] [-C footer_str] [-R footer_str] [-N notes_str] [-D symbol] [-U symbol] [-x xscale] [-y yscale] [-X xtrans] [-Y ytrans] [-I] [-c | -H] [-z time_zone] [-B] [-# n] [-S | -k | -K] [-w] [-h | -u | -v] [-a language] [-T [B|I|R]] [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 or as the full 4 digit year. If no numeric arguments are provided, the calendar 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. the -w option is given), the command 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 starting at the given month and year. If the month, year, and nmonths arguments 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

By default, pcal simply prints an empty calendar. Its real power is in its ability to place ``events'' in appropriate days on the calendar, thus allowing the user to create personalized calendars. This is achieved through the use of the ``date file''.

The date file is named .calendar (pcal.dat under MS-DOS), or calendar for compatibility with older versions. Pcal will look in several places for such a file. First, if the environment variable PCAL_DIR is defined, pcal searches the directory 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, 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.

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

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>, and </B> or </I> may be used instead to set the font style to Bold, Italic, or the previous font style respectively. The font style is reset to Roman after each line break.

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>

Where:

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

<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>
    := ``before'', ``preceding'', ``after'', ``following'', ``on_or_before'' (``oob''), ``on_or_after'' (``ooa''), ``nearest'', ``nearest_before``, or ``nearest_after``

<holiday>
    := ``Christmas'', ``Thanksgiving'', etc.

<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

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>}

Pcal also allows format specifiers in both the text and foot strings (see the -L, -C, -R, and -N options below); each will be replaced by a corresponding string as outlined in the table below. Most of these are derived from the ANSI C strftime() function; the %[louwMD] and %[o0+-] format specifiers are specific to pcal:

	%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

The %u specifier considers the week containing 1/1 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 to strftime().

The %o format specifier prints a number as an ordinal, with the appropriate 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) without 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 following/previous month/year in the following [bBmyY] specifier. For example, %+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 original date. Note that %M has a different meaning to the strftime() function.

The ``Notes'' box (see below) uses the first of the current month as the default date. All foot 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

	12/25/93*                   Christmas     # American
	25.12.93*                   Christmas     # European
	25. 12.*                    Christmas	  # European

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

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 to be printed in gray. ``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 keywords ``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 predominant 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 ``nonweekday'', ``nonworkday'', and ``nonholiday'' are also recognized as negations 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_quarter'', 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 nearest_before [Thu.] 9/26/96'' refers to Saturday, 9/28.)

Text in the date file may use C-like escape sequences (i.e. a `\' followed 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 `&lt;' `&gt;' `&quot;' `&amp;' `&nbsp;' 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 .calendar 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 .calendar file consisting of year all (or, alternatively, year *) direct pcal to wildcard following entries against every applicable year. This assumes that the following entries do not contain a year; any date entries containing year information (or an explicit year XXXX entry) will set the remembered year to that year.

Lines in the .calendar 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 .calendar 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 negative 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).

Comments are supported in the .calendar file. Any characters following a `#' character through the end of the line are ignored (unless the `#' character is escaped by `\').

Pcal supports rudimentary cpp-like functionality in the date file, allowing the following constructs: define | undef, if{{n}def} ... {elif ...}* {else ...} endif, and 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. 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 surrounded 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 applicable 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 consist 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 specify 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.

Options

Pcal has many 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 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). This also resets the x- and y-axis scaling and translation factors to the defaults for landscape mode.

-p  Causes the output to be in portrait mode. This also resets the x- and y-axis scaling and translation factors to the defaults for portrait mode.

-j  Causes the Julian date (day of year) to be printed in each calendar 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 specified) to be printed in gray; -g all causes all weekdays (other than holidays) to be printed in gray; -g holiday causes all holidays to be printed in gray. day1 and day2 may wrap around weekends; for example, -g fri-sun causes Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays to be printed in gray.

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

-G day1[-day2] | all | holiday
    Similar to -g, but the selected days will be printed as outlined characters filled with gray.

-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, Sundays, and holidays in gray 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 specified color.

-s [date_shade][/fill_shade]
    Overrides the default values for date and/or fill box shading. These values must be in the range 0.0 (black) through 1.0 (white); they may be set independently of each other. The default values are 0.8 for dates and 0.9 for empty boxes.

Note:
    For use with color printers, date_shade and fill_shade may optionally be specified as a set of red:green:blue values; red, blue, and green must in the range 0.0 through 1.0. At least one ':' must be present for this option to be recognized; omitted values are set to 0.0.

-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).

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

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

-X xtrans
    Specifies the x-axis translation value for positioning the output on the page.

-Y ytrans
    Specifies the y-axis translation value for positioning the output on the page.

-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 to print all the calendar heading text: the month name and year at the top of the calendar, the weekday names, the notes box heading, and the foot strings. The user may optionally specify the font size for the month/year heading (single-month calendar only); 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.

-d [date_font][/size]
    Similar to the -t option, but selects the font and/or size used to print the dates.

-n [text_font][/size]
    Similar to the -t and -d options, but selects the font and/or size used to print the text associated with each day and in the "Notes" blocks.

-r [mapping]
    Specifies an 8-bit character set remapping for printing the diacritical marks common to European languages; mapping may be "Roman8" (ROMAN-8 extended character set), "Latin1" (ISO LATIN-1 extended character set), or "none" (builtin 8-bit mappings only). It may be abbreviated to a single character if desired.

-D symbol
    Defines the named symbol prior to reading the date file.

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

-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.

-B  Causes pcal to leave unused calendar boxes blank (default is 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 corner (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 portrait 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.

-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 moons, Julian dates, alternate date colors, left or right footstrings (but see the -C flag), alternate fonts/sizes, transformation and scaling factors, fill box shading, or Esperanto.

-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).

-I  Resets all parameters to the program defaults.

-h  Causes pcal to write version information, parameter usage message, and full explanation of options and file formats (to stdout) 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_X, where X_X denotes the current version of Pcal (i.e., v4.7 predefines v4_7).

-a language
    Select the language for the names of months and days. As of v4.6, the following languages are supported: de (German), en (English) eo (Esperanto) es (Spanish), fr (French), gr (Greek), and it (Italian). The default is en.

    Note: In order to display diacritical marks, languages other than English require that the fonts be remapped (typically via the "Latin1" remapping). If no remapping is specified, pcal selects a remapping appropriate to the selected language; note that the Greek language also requires an ELOT-928 font (available from ah@doc.ic.ac.uk). Also see the -r and -t options.

    If Esperanto is selected, Pcal converts [cghjsuCGHJSU][xX^] and [uU][xX~] to the corresponding accented character; e.g. "jxauxdo", "j^au~do", or any equivalent form will print as "j-circumflex a u-breve d o".

    Day and month names in the date file may be expressed in either the default language specified at compile-time or the language selected on the command line.

    Pcal predefines the symbol lang_XX, where XX is the two-character abbreviation for the selected language.

-T [B|I|R]
    Select the default typeface (Bold, Italic, or Roman) for printing 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.

Any option (except -G and -O, for backward-compatibility) which normally 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 disambiguate 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 .calendar file or explicitly on the command line.

CAVEATS
The ``workday'' and ``holiday'' keywords are aware of only those holidays 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 .calendar 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 .calendar 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 prepositions (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
cal(1), calendar(1).

AUTHORS
The original PostScript code to generate the calendars was written by Patrick Wood (Copyright (c) 1987 by Patrick Wood of Pipeline Associates, Inc.), and authorized for modification and redistribution. The calendar file inclusion code was originally written in "bs(1)" by Bill Vogel of AT&T. Patrick's original PostScript was modified and enhanced several times by King Ables, Tim Tessin, Joe Wood, Jeff Mogul, Mark Hanson, 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, and Geoff Kuenning. The moon routines were originally written by Jef Poskanzer and Craig Leres, and were incorporated into Pcal by Richard Dyson. International language support was added by Angelo Haritsis (except Esperanto, by Andrew Rogers).