My gosh!
If I had known there would be so much encouraging response, I would
have written two years ago, when my cataracts first started to become
a real pain in the neck!
Thanks Krysztof, George (and others who wrote in reply):
After receiving your replies I looked at the man page of x
On Thu, Mar 28, 2002 at 12:46:07PM +0100, Martin Schroeder wrote:
> On 2002-03-28 10:07:59 +0530, Kalyan Mukherjea wrote:
> > TeX document from him/her but it would be preferable if there were a
> > switch in the ps or pdf viewers which would simply interchange ff
> > (white) pixels for (0
On 2002-03-28 10:07:59 +0530, Kalyan Mukherjea wrote:
> TeX document from him/her but it would be preferable if there were a
> switch in the ps or pdf viewers which would simply interchange ff
> (white) pixels for (00) black pixels. Is this a stupid/impossible
> suggestion from a technolog
Hello teTeXnicians,
I have been reading this thread in a slightly bemused
fashion. At first, it seemed that someone didn't like typing the same
dvips + gv command over and over again. But surely that is easily
solved by using Emacs + AucTeX AucTeX helps track LaTeX errors
and once no m
On Sun, 24 Mar 2002, Helen McCall wrote:
> Having long hated Postscript hacking, I would like to use pdf in my
> programming as well if it is easier. I have the set of Adobe Postscript
> [...]
For a TeX-based workflow, metapost is worth considering. Metapost
PS files are already "flattened" and
On 2002-03-26 10:36:26 +, Sebastian Rahtz wrote:
> You can download the entire spec for PDF from Adobe's web site.
> I don't think its formally published any more.
But of course it is:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0201758393/ :-)
Best regards
Martin
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On 26 Mar, Sebastian Rahtz wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 24, 2002 at 06:04:50PM +, Helen McCall wrote:
>
>> I have the set of Adobe Postscript
>> manuals and cookbook etc as published by Addison Wesley which I bought
>> some years ago. Is there a similar set of books as a definitive reference
>> to PD
Hello Sebastian,
On Sun, 24 Mar 2002, Sebastian Rahtz wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 23, 2002 at 05:06:56PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >
> >Is there some overwhelming
> > reason to use pdf instead of ps?
>
> yes, because we have pdftex but we dont have pstex! PDF is the
> way things are going, be
> >To be truthful, I'd not even thought of pdf(la)tex. Yes, this may be a
> >reasonable solution...expect that it produces pdf, not ps, files. I'm
> >not sure, but I think that to print pdf files to my postscript printer
> >they first would need to be converted to ps. I'm really not all that
>
>
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Sebastian Rahtz wrote:
>> > Is it possible to setup tetex to produce postscript files instead of
>> > dvi? I find that I'm almost always converting the dvi to ps, either for
>> > printing or even on-screen viewing ... I can type 'dvips .
On Sun, Mar 24, 2002 at 06:04:50PM +, Helen McCall wrote:
> I have the set of Adobe Postscript
> manuals and cookbook etc as published by Addison Wesley which I bought
> some years ago. Is there a similar set of books as a definitive reference
> to PDF? If so can you tell me the name of the b
Thomas Anders wrote:
>
> I'm quite surprised that nobody has mentioned "latexmk" yet:
> http://www.phys.psu.edu/~collins/software/latexmk-jcc/
>
> It's in Perl and works like a charm. Too bad it's not a proper
> CPAN _module_ that can be used in other projects.
Thanks for this pointer. Grabbed
On Sat, Mar 23, 2002 at 05:06:56PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> To be truthful, I'd not even thought of pdf(la)tex. Yes, this may be a
> reasonable solution...expect that it produces pdf, not ps, files. I'm
> not sure, but I think that to print pdf files to my postscript printer
> they fir
David Kastrup wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes
>>>On Saturday, 23. March 2002 22:02, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote
Is it possible to setup tetex to produce postscript files instead of
dvi? I find that I'm almost always converting the dvi to ps, either for
printing or even on-screen viewi
On Sat, Mar 23, 2002 at 02:02:38PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> Is it possible to setup tetex to produce postscript files instead of
> dvi? I find that I'm almost always converting the dvi to ps, either for
> printing or even on-screen viewing ... I can type 'dvips ...; gv ...'
> almost in
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> > On Saturday, 23. March 2002 22:02, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > > Is it possible to setup tetex to produce postscript files instead of
> > > dvi? I find that I'm almost always converting the dvi to ps, either for
> > > printing or even on-screen viewing ... I can typ
On Sat, Mar 23, 2002 at 02:02:38PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> Is it possible to setup tetex to produce postscript files instead of
> dvi? I find that I'm almost always converting the dvi to ps, either for
> printing or even on-screen viewing ... I can type 'dvips ...; gv ...'
> almost in
On 2002-03-23 14:02:38 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Is it possible to setup tetex to produce postscript files instead of
> dvi? I find that I'm almost always converting the dvi to ps, either for
No. TeX will always produce dvi. But you might want to look at
pdfTeX which can produce pdf inste
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> Sebastian Rahtz wrote:
> >
> > On Sat, Mar 23, 2002 at 02:02:38PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > >
> > > Is it possible to setup tetex to produce postscript files instead of
> > > dvi? I find that I'm almost always converting the dvi to ps, either for
> > > print
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> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> > > On Saturday, 23. March 2002 22:02, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > > > Is it possible to setup tetex to produce postscript files instead of
> > > > dvi? I find that I
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On Sunday, 24. March 2002 01:10, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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> Yes, I'd thought of that...but it's not all that simple. I think the
> biggest hassle is writing code to check to see if the (la)tex file
> compiled properly... Guess I was hoping that some
Ingo Krabbe wrote:
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> On Saturday, 23. March 2002 22:02, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > Is it possible to setup tetex to produce postscript files instead of
> > dvi? I find that I'm almost always converting the dvi to ps, either for
> > printing
Sebastian Rahtz wrote:
>
> On Sat, Mar 23, 2002 at 02:02:38PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >
> > Is it possible to setup tetex to produce postscript files instead of
> > dvi? I find that I'm almost always converting the dvi to ps, either for
> > printing or even on-screen viewing ... I can t
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On Saturday, 23. March 2002 22:02, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Is it possible to setup tetex to produce postscript files instead of
> dvi? I find that I'm almost always converting the dvi to ps, either for
> printing or even on-screen viewing ... I can
Is it possible to setup tetex to produce postscript files instead of
dvi? I find that I'm almost always converting the dvi to ps, either for
printing or even on-screen viewing ... I can type 'dvips ...; gv ...'
almost in my sleep.
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