Date: Tue, 3 Mar 1998 02:10:13 -0800 From: Josef Grosch <jgrosch@superior.mooseriver.com> To: Annelise Anderson <andrsn@andrsn.stanford.edu> Cc: allen campbell <allenc@verinet.com>, grog@lemis.com, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ps2pdf (was: newbies mailing list) Message-ID: <19980303021013.27656@mooseriver.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980303003912.3631A-100000@andrsn.stanford.edu>; from Annelise Anderson on Tue, Mar 03, 1998 at 01:04:34AM -0800 References: <199803030441.VAA11558@const.> <Pine.BSF.3.96.980303003912.3631A-100000@andrsn.stanford.edu>
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On Tue, Mar 03, 1998 at 01:04:34AM -0800, Annelise Anderson wrote:
>
>
> On Mon, 2 Mar 1998, allen campbell wrote:
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> > IMHO, HTML is the best choice for this documentation. HTML is
>
> I think HTML is great for reading on the screen (with Netscape or
> Internet Explorer) and printing. But the handbook comes in 340 or so
> HTML pieces. It is in this condition useless to me, although I know
> other people like this sort of thing. So I usually read a latin1
> version with "less," if there's something I need to look at.
>
> John Fieber suggested once breaking the handbook into chapters (he
> had 22 sections; 6 or 8 appealed to me) but the chapters were
> available only on his server.
>
> I printed out the copy of the handbook that came with 2.0.5 (it was
> ascii and had no control codes like ^H in it) using a little dos
> program called pcbook.exe. This is one of those programs that makes
> booklets; you take the paper out of the Laserjet and turn it over and
> print the other sides, and then fold it, and it gets the page numbers
> right. Actually I still use this version of the handbook because it's
> convenient, even though it's out of date.
>
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It is in fact very easy to produce a postscript version of either the FAQ
or the handbook. Just cd in the directory with the sgml source and
sgmlfmt -f ps [handbook|FAQ].sgml
And out comes a postscript file. When I print a copy of the handbook I go
looking for a HP laser printer that can print on both sides. It's really
nice if you have a pack of pre-drilled laser paper.
Josef "Killing trees" Grosch
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