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Date:      07 Jul 2000 11:03:08 -0400
From:      Lowell Gilbert <lowell@be-well.ilk.org>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, David Banning <David@www3.pacific-pages.com>
Subject:   Re: way to pipe latex files to printer?
Message-ID:  <44aefu3rv7.fsf@lowellg.ne.mediaone.net>
In-Reply-To: Rahul Siddharthan's message of "Fri, 7 Jul 2000 07:32:43 %2B0530"
References:  <39652CDF.F03FDB72@www3.pacific-pages.com> <20000707073243.C12789@physics.iisc.ernet.in>

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Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in> 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.


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