From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jul 7 8: 4:28 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from be-well.ilk.org (lowellg.ne.mediaone.net [24.147.184.128]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6EFB037BF62 for ; Fri, 7 Jul 2000 08:04:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from lowell@be-well.ilk.org) Received: (from lowell@localhost) by be-well.ilk.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) id LAA15493; Fri, 7 Jul 2000 11:03:08 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from lowell) To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, David Banning Subject: Re: way to pipe latex files to printer? References: <39652CDF.F03FDB72@www3.pacific-pages.com> <20000707073243.C12789@physics.iisc.ernet.in> From: Lowell Gilbert Date: 07 Jul 2000 11:03:08 -0400 In-Reply-To: Rahul Siddharthan's message of "Fri, 7 Jul 2000 07:32:43 +0530" Message-ID: <44aefu3rv7.fsf@lowellg.ne.mediaone.net> Lines: 23 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.7/Emacs 20.6 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Rahul Siddharthan writes: > David Banning said on Jul 6, 2000 at 21:05:35: > > Is there a way to pipe a latex files directly to the printer? > > > > The way I do it now is; > > > > latex myfile.tex > > dvips myfile > > That's the only way to do it properly. If you want only a crude > representation I think there are programs that strip latex commands > and output the text (you'll lose the math, tables, etc of course); but > for properly typeset output, there are no shortcuts to latex. Also, > if you have cross-references and so on you may need to run latex > twice (and on rare occasions, three times). You can, in theory, set up a print filter that will recognize latex and run latex and dvips automatically. I seem to recall that apsfilter can set up such a filter for you, if you want, and I suspect that magicfilter can do so also. Be well. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message