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From: NU013809@NDSUVM1.BITNET (Greg Wettstein)
Newsgroups: comp.text
Subject: Problem printing GNU manuals.
Message-ID: <2881NU013809@NDSUVM1>
Date: 4 Oct 89 22:35:38 GMT
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I have decided that TEX and the texinfo system has finally beaten me.  I
have brought up almost all the GNU tools under XENIX 2.3.1, I have obtained
the most current TEX sources and unraveled the web and converted web to C, I
have downloaded fonts ad nauseum from Nelson Beebe's machine in utah along
with the epson printer driver.  The problem is that I cannot for the life of
me get the GNU manuals to print correctly.

For example I run make.texinfo through TEX.  I sort the indexes, re-run TEX
and generate a .dvi file with no apparent difficulties.  However when I use
dvieps to generate output to my Panasonic KX-P1524 the page lengths seem
to be incorrect.  The title page prints satisfactorily but when the @page
command is hit the paper is rolled so far forward that the copyright line
ends up on the middle of the next page, this causes the last paragraph to
print across the page perforation and onto the next page.  If I print the
first ten pages of the manual I find that some pages start too close to the
top of the page ( in defiance of the one inch down, one inch left rule) while
others start correctly but run over the bottom of the page.

When I convert the files to INFO format the load up and everything runs
correctly in GNU EMACS Version 15.54.  I have a sneaky suspician that I am
overlooking something obvious but for the life of me I can't figure out what
that would be.  I have read everything I can lay my hands but have found no
references to the problem.

If anybody can shed some light on this problem I would be deeply appreciative.
GNU EMACS and MAKE are great but a hard-copy of the documentation to study
would be even nicer.  Replies either via mail or to the net would be
satisfactory.  Thanks in advance for any assistance that can be rendered.


                                    As always,
                                    Dr. Greg Wettstein
                                    NU013809@NDSUVM1


P.S.:  I am sorry if this is a foolish question that has been answered
       ad nauseum but I am new to the game of text processing with TeX.
       It took me about a week to find out that in order to get the C
       version of tangle to work one had to provide an explicit cast for
       the first sub-script of all the two-dimensional arrays that were
       used.  At least this was the case with the XENIX 2.3 development
       system.   GW