From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Apr 14 14:51:39 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (okc-65-26-235-186.mmcable.com [65.26.235.186]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 49DBF37B50B for ; Sat, 14 Apr 2001 14:51:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mwm@mired.org) Received: (qmail 84649 invoked by uid 100); 14 Apr 2001 21:51:35 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15064.50791.443636.821857@guru.mired.org> Date: Sat, 14 Apr 2001 16:51:35 -0500 To: "Thierry Black" Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Thanks and another question In-Reply-To: <132477976@toto.iv> X-Mailer: VM 6.90 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Thierry Black types: > Now I have a different one. does anyone here use unix scripting tools > to create documents, and then convert to ps? How does the process work in > general terms? I've heard of tools like Latex, but I can't seem to find much > good information. i guess I'm looking for a good starting point and maybe > some examples. Is this freebsd related? If there is a more appropirate > forum, please suggest. Well, I guess I qualify. I write scripts that generate PS for special purposes, and usually start with a small amount of user data that could be called a document. If you're talking about that level of thing, you need to be able to write postscript, and the only way I to learn that is with the Adobe books on the subject. On the other hand, if you're talking about LaTeX, that's not what you're talking about. Quoting the latex port description: "LaTeX is a TeX macro package." TeX is a typesetting package. You mark up ascii text in your favorite word processor, send it through TeX, and it spits out postscript. Well, it provided postscript I was using it; it may be able to do other things as well. The various smart printer filters know how to deal with it, and will run that process for you There are lots of scripts for converting documents to/from LaTeX in the ports you can use as examples if that's what you're looking for. http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message