[Remind-Fans] Desktop calendar

[Shelagh Manton]

I've managed to cook up a little script which I use to put a daily
calendar on the desktop using gnome sessions. I told the desktop
background to look to remind.png and sessions to run this:
remind -p | rem2ps -l -m A4 -shd 9 -se 9 -st 11 -b 2 -olt 0 | convert
-border 5x5 -bordercolor red -rotate 90 - remind.png

I had to %"%" the items in my todo list so they didn't clutter up the
calendar. I was hoping to make a daily picture using the output or
remind to enscript and then convert. However all the formatting notation
that makes it readable in the terminal also came through in the list I
created. So it was ugly. There doesn't seem to be a remind -p option
that will do anything less than a month?

So two questions:
1) Has anyone devised a way to pipe the output of remind through some
utility to make it a picture? How did you do it?
I did this;
remind | enscript -o - -Br -f Palatino-Bold19 | convert -border 5x5
-bordercolor red -rotate 90 - remind.png 

Maybe there's some way to tell enscript to ignore the \033 and all that.

2) If I use the month calendar picture for my desktop picture I know
there would be a way to highlight today's day with a SPECIAL command.
Would somebody be able to give me an idea of how to do this? 

Shelagh
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