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From: mark@gizzmo.UUCP (mark hilliard)
Newsgroups: comp.text
Subject: Help with eroff and postscript
Message-ID: <375@gizzmo.UUCP>
Date: 23 Jul 89 03:04:06 GMT
Reply-To: mark@gizzmo.UUCP (mark hilliard)
Organization: GIZZMO, Walworth, NY
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Well, I like eroff, and have found the man set very good untill now, but
I am stumped.  Can anyone shed some light on this?

Ok,  I have a standard text file written with the mm macros, pic, and tbl
sections.  Now, I would like to include a postscript segment at the TOP
of my file, and then send the entire thing through eroff to a postscript
printer.  Although this is not important, my command line will look
something like this:

tbl file | pic -D | eroff -mm -dps

The man on page 2-13 says that I have to append 
the \X'code="postscriptline"' stuff to EACH line in my postscript file
that I want to include in my troff file (up to 80 chars per line max).
This is NOT acceptable, as I do not wish to have to modify EACH and 
EVERY line of my postscript include file. 

IS THERE ANY EASIER WAY TO DO THIS????

Can I add my postscript file into header file (must be there for eroff
somewhere) that eroff (must?) send to the postscript printer with
the -dps command?  And if this is possible, is there someway to 
specify via command line option which header file to use?




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