From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jul 8 9:28:38 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from fac13.ds.psu.edu (fac13.ds.psu.edu [146.186.61.98]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 298EC37C22B for ; Sat, 8 Jul 2000 09:28:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from hawk@fac13.ds.psu.edu) Received: from fac13.ds.psu.edu (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by fac13.ds.psu.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA06431; Sat, 8 Jul 2000 12:26:13 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from hawk@fac13.ds.psu.edu) Message-Id: <200007081626.MAA06431@fac13.ds.psu.edu> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: David@SkytrackerCanada.com Cc: Rahul Siddharthan , Lowell Gilbert , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: way to pipe latex files to printer? In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 08 Jul 2000 02:30:11 EDT." <3966CA73.18B2819C@www3.pacific-pages.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sat, 08 Jul 2000 12:26:13 -0400 From: "Richard E. Hawkins" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > 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. It will work fine within limits. If you see [??] or similar things in your output, it is because tex needed to run more than once, which will be the case if you have cross-references. hawk To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message