Date: Wed, 25 Oct 1995 10:39:09 -0500 (EST) From: John Fieber <jfieber@indiana.edu> To: John Capo <jc@irbs.com> Cc: Julian Elischer <julian@ref.tfs.com>, dhlewis@ix.netcom.com, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Manual in printed form Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.951025103408.254A-100000@fieber-john.campusview.indiana.edu> In-Reply-To: <199510251242.IAA08934@irbs.irbs.com>
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On Wed, 25 Oct 1995, John Capo wrote:
> sgmlfmt -f latex handbook.sgml produces handbook.tex. Run latex
> _three_ times on it and you get a .dvi. Should only need two passes
> to get the page numbers right. :-(
Nope.
Pass 1: Page numbers are collected.
Pass 2: "correct" page numbers are inserted BUT, the table of contents
has also been inserted which makes them all wrong.
Pass 3: correct page numbers are inserted.
The next generation conversion will hopefully be able to generate decent
postscript via groff so TeX won't be required.
-john
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