jgreely@oz.cis.ohio-state.edu (J Greely) (10/22/89)
In article <JGREELY.89Oct19193324@oz.cis.ohio-state.edu> jgreely@oz.cis.ohio-state.edu (J Greely) writes: >By the way, if anyone's interested in a double-sided, two-up, troffed >copy of the perl manual, suitable for stapling in the middle and >calling a booklet, let me know. It's one of my more twisted Perl and >PostScript hacks. I've lost count of the number of mailed requests I've received for this, several of them sent less than fifteen minutes after I posted. I think I've touched a nerve here. I can't mail any physical copies until after the 31st (payday), but the PostScript output (to be printed out and run through a bright copier), and/or the Perl scripts to generate it, will be e-mailable any time (the scripts will also be dropped in the anonymous ftp area on tut.cis.ohio-state.edu, which strongly resembles the anonymous uucp area on osu-cis). The two-up (actually, n-up) code is already there, and will soon be posted in slightly revised form to wherever seems most appropriate. The signature-ordering code will be added to it as soon as I clean it up a bit and add a manual page. Now all I need to do is find a dvi-to-PostScript converter that obeys the Adobe structuring conventions the way I do, and I'm set. -=- J Greely (jgreely@cis.ohio-state.edu; osu-cis!jgreely)
jgreely@giza.cis.ohio-state.edu (J Greely) (10/25/89)
(this thread is my thread, this thread ain't your thread...) In article <JGREELY.89Oct22034634@oz.cis.ohio-state.edu> jgreely@oz.cis.ohio-state.edu (J Greely) writes: > The two-up (actually, n-up) code is already there, and will soon be >posted in slightly revised form to wherever seems most appropriate. >The signature-ordering code will be added to it as soon as I clean it >up a bit and add a manual page. The whole package has been sent off to comp.sources.misc, and will appear whenever. This is what you get: up - print conforming PS n-up parr - rearrange conforming PS into signature order (or any order, for that matter) makeup - produce numbered test pages up.1, parr.1, makeup.1, uprc.5 - manual pages for above ...plus a README, a Makefile, and a how-to guide for those who hate my code. Order now, and you'll also get this handy closet maximizer, a $10 value, absolutely free! (too much late-night cable tv?) For those who hate waiting, it's currently available for anoymous ftp from tut.cis.ohio-state.edu as pub/perl/scripts/up.shar, and for anonymous uucp from osu-cis as ~/perl/scripts/up.shar (and yes, the names are right this time). For anyone who picked this stuff up previously, this is a new version, with lots of changes. > Now all I need to do is find a dvi-to-PostScript converter that >obeys the Adobe structuring conventions the way I do, and I'm set. I'm close on this one. dvips 4.2 (ftp'able from labrea.stanford.edu) is the best bet, and only requires one minor hack to work (moving the Setup code to PageSetup). "But *sniff*, you will come back to play with us again, won't you?" "Of *course* I will! On the second Tuesday of next week." "Hooway! Hooway!" "Wait! The *second* Tuesday?" -- J Greely (jgreely@cis.ohio-state.edu; osu-cis!jgreely)
jgreely@oz.cis.ohio-state.edu (J Greely) (10/25/89)
(me again...) In article <JGREELY.89Oct24161202@giza.cis.ohio-state.edu> jgreely@giza.cis.ohio-state.edu (J Greely) writes: >I'm close on this one. dvips 4.2 (ftp'able from labrea.stanford.edu) >is the best bet, and only requires one minor hack to work I got it to work, with only trivial patches. The patches are now in the same place as the up sharfile, in the file dvips42.patch. -=- J Greely (jgreely@cis.ohio-state.edu; osu-cis!jgreely)