Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!ginosko!gem.mps.ohio-state.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!oz.cis.ohio-state.edu!jgreely From: jgreely@oz.cis.ohio-state.edu (J Greely) Newsgroups: comp.sources.d Subject: Creating a monster (was Re: Production perl...) Message-ID: Date: 22 Oct 89 07:46:34 GMT References: <6277@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV> <1764@sauron.Columbia.NCR.COM> Sender: news@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu Reply-To: J Greely Organization: Ohio State University Computer and Information Science Lines: 25 In-reply-to: jgreely@oz.cis.ohio-state.edu's message of 19 Oct 89 23:33:24 GMT In article 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)