Date: Sat, 08 Jul 2000 02:30:11 -0400 From: David Banning <David@www3.pacific-pages.com> To: Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in> Cc: Lowell Gilbert <lowell@lowellg.ne.mediaone.net>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: way to pipe latex files to printer? Message-ID: <3966CA73.18B2819C@www3.pacific-pages.com> References: <39652CDF.F03FDB72@www3.pacific-pages.com> <20000707073243.C12789@physics.iisc.ernet.in> <44aefu3rv7.fsf@lowellg.ne.mediaone.net> <20000707235837.A937@physics.iisc.ernet.in>
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In the end, I created a script like; cat $1 > /tmp/templatex.tex latex /tmp/templatex dvips templatex which I call "lat" - my report program creates the tex program, then pipes it into "lat" seems to work fine - thanks for your comments. Rahul Siddharthan wrote: > > > 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. > > Well yes, it shouldn't be too difficult to configure things that way. > But I'd prefer to do the latex manually -- in case there are errors > (missing figures/style files/etc), in case I need to run it twice, and > so on. > > Rahul. -- Too often I find that the volume of paper expands to fill the available briefcases. -- Governor Jerry Brown To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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