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7.1 Syntactic limits

a2ps is not a powerful syntactic pretty-printer: it just handles lexical structures, i.e., if in your favorite language

IF IF == THEN THEN THEN := ELSE ELSE ELSE := IF

is legal, then a2ps is not the tool you need. Indeed a2ps just looks for some keywords, or some sequences.