hubert@entropy.ms.washington.edu (Steve Hubert) (01/07/88)
I'm trying to get Trevor Darrell's Psfig/TeX macros to work with the
dvi2ps which Chris Torek has available via anonymous ftp. Psfig is a
macro package which facilitates the inclusion of PostScript code into
TeX documents. It uses the \special command. However, it is designed
to work with ArborText's dvips which I don't have. Has anyone modified
either Psfig or dvi2ps so that they will work well together?
Alternatively, does anyone have another suggestion? Thanks.
Steve Hubert
Dept. of Stat., U. of Wash, Seattle
hubert@entropy.ms.washington.edu
{decvax,ihnp4}!uw-beaver!uw-entropy!hubertchris@mimsy.UUCP (Chris Torek) (01/07/88)
In article <701@entropy.ms.washington.edu> hubert@entropy.ms.washington.edu (Steve Hubert) writes: >I'm trying to get Trevor Darrell's Psfig/TeX macros to work with the >dvi2ps which Chris Torek has available via anonymous ftp. A small correction: Whatever dvi2ps is available from mimsy.umd.edu is not mine. (Maybe if I stopped reading all this netnews I might have time to work on it :-) .) To put it another way, I have no idea how it works or why it might not work. -- In-Real-Life: Chris Torek, Univ of MD Comp Sci Dept (+1 301 454 7690) Domain: chris@mimsy.umd.edu Path: uunet!mimsy!chris
trevor@linc.cis.upenn.edu (Trevor Darrell) (01/09/88)
In article <701@entropy.ms.washington.edu> hubert@entropy.ms.washington.edu (Steve Hubert) writes: >I'm trying to get Trevor Darrell's Psfig/TeX macros to work with the >dvi2ps which Chris Torek has available via anonymous ftp. Psfig is a >macro package which facilitates the inclusion of PostScript code into >TeX documents. It uses the \special command. However, it is designed >to work with ArborText's dvips which I don't have. Has anyone modified >either Psfig or dvi2ps so that they will work well together? I just started installing Stephan Bechtolsheim's (i5f@l.cc.purdue.edu) beta-test version of dvi2ps, in hopes of making the necessary changes to psfig and dvi2ps for them to work together. (All that psfig basicallty needs is a \special facililty for file and literal postscript inclusion. Once I get it fully installed, I don't imagine it is going to be difficult to get them to co-exist.) Unfortunatly Stephan does not wish to release his code for general use quite yet, so I can't promise when it will be available. I have heard rumors of a few people here and there who have hacked up dvi2ps and psfig, but I haven't actually seen any coherent package of code, so I thought I'd bite the bullet and do it myself now that I have a bit of free time. If anyone already has a stable dvi2ps that works with psfig, please get in touch with me. I'll post when I have any distribution info about dvi2ps and psfig/tex. thanks, --trevor
naparst@cartan.Berkeley.EDU (Harold Naparst) (01/09/88)
In article <701@entropy.ms.washington.edu> hubert@entropy.ms.washington.edu (Steve Hubert) writes: >I'm trying to get Trevor Darrell's Psfig/TeX macros to work with the >dvi2ps which Chris Torek has available via anonymous ftp. Psfig is a >macro package which facilitates the inclusion of PostScript code into >TeX documents. It uses the \special command. However, it is designed >to work with ArborText's dvips which I don't have. Has anyone modified >either Psfig or dvi2ps so that they will work well together? >Alternatively, does anyone have another suggestion? Thanks. Everyone seems to be asking about this, so I'll follow-up rather than reply. I posted a similar question a couple of months ago. I had the same problem. There are a lot of dvi2ps processors, each with their own method of including postscript. There is only one dvi2ps that psfig works with. So people are starting to hack psfig to work with their dvi2ps, or hack dvi2ps to work with psfig, or both. I don't know where we got ours from, but now we have a combination that works OK, except it deletes everything on the page that precedes the figure. You get around this by placing the figure on a separate page with \begin{figure}[p]. I don't really feel like mailing the whole thing to everyone in the world, especially since it doesn't seem to be working well and it is over 1 Mbyte. I have worked on this stuff for a couple of months now, and if you want my advice (and I am serious), buy some scissors and glue. -- Harold Naparst (415)-548-4652 UUCP {tektronix,dual,sun,ihnp4,decvax}!ucbvax!cartan!naparst New style naparst@cartan.berkeley.edu ARPA | CSNET naparst%cartan@berkeley.edu
langdon@lll-lcc.aRpA (Bruce Langdon) (01/12/88)
In article <1489@cartan.Berkeley.EDU>, naparst@cartan.Berkeley.EDU (Harold Naparst) writes: > In article <701@entropy.ms.washington.edu> hubert@entropy.ms.washington.edu (Steve Hubert) writes: > >I'm trying to get Trevor Darrell's Psfig/TeX macros to work with the > >dvi2ps which .... However, it is designed to work with ArborText's dvips ... > > There are a lot of dvi2ps processors, each with their own method of including > postscript. There is only one dvi2ps that psfig works with. > ... now we have a combination that works OK, except it deletes everything > on the page that precedes the figure. > > I have worked on this stuff for a couple of months now, and if you want my > advice (and I am serious), buy some scissors and glue. If your bureaucrats value your time, you may be able to BUY ArborText's dvips, which does work and includes instructive example files. We did this in 1986; it's cheaper now I think. Then, if a standard develops around dvi2ps \special and you don't have a dvips site license by then, you will have an additional option. I consume and write netware too, but... ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Bruce Langdon L-472 langdon@lll-lcc.llnl.gov Physics Department 339650%d@nmfecc.arpa Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Livermore, CA 94550 (415) 422-5444 UUCP: ..{ihnp4,qantel,ucdavis,pyramid,harvard,topaz}!lll-lcc!langdon