Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!watdragon!jmsellens
From: jmsellens@watdragon.waterloo.edu (John M. Sellens)
Newsgroups: uw.unix
Subject: Re: Imbedding postscript in LaTeX
Message-ID: <16571@watdragon.waterloo.edu>
Date: 21 Sep 89 20:29:54 GMT
References: <11516@watcgl.waterloo.edu>
Reply-To: jmsellens@watdragon.waterloo.edu (John M. Sellens)
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In article <11516@watcgl.waterloo.edu> ahvermen@watcgl.waterloo.edu writes:
>From: Al Vermeulen <ahvermen>
>
>
>Does anyone know how I can imbed a postscript figure in a LaTeX
>document?  I'm printing on a postscript printer so the -Fd flag on
>lpr runs the dvi file through dvi2ps (or whatever it is now called).
>There are some comments at the end of /usr/lib/tex/tex.ps that lead
>me to believe I should be able to do this using some sort of \special
>command but I can't figure out how.

I think
  \special{filename}
or
  \special{psfile filename}
should work.

If the man page was any good, it would mention this.  But nobody reading
the man page seems to care.