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From: aglew@oberon.crhc.uiuc.edu (Andy Glew)
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Subject: Re: draft documents
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In-Reply-To: MMAC@vax.oxford.ac.uk's message of 12 Jul 90 09:54:00 GMT

I want to thank "The_Edible_Dormouse" [*] for his draft banner
marking.

I can also make some corrections (possibly due to printer differences)
to his comments:

>1) Make it lighter: look for the line 
>.80 setgray
>
>and reduce the number there (scale is 0 to 1, with 1 being as black as your
>laserprinter can get, black which is TRULY gray in my case, alas)

Using an Apple laserwriter, .00 is black. I am using .95, which is a
very nice light gray.


>2) How to use it for more than one page: put 
>\special{draft.ps}
>in a footer. I was using fancyheadings.sty and
>\lfoot{\special{draft.ps}}
>which seemd to work fine. To change the position on the page (I guess it
>doesn't sit right on American 11"x9" paper) then change the line
>
>80 100 moveto
>
>as appropriate. It is moving from the place where the file is included, ie
>bottom left if used in \lfoot so increasing the two values (x and y) moves it
>across and up.
>
>...
>
>4) Underlay rather than overlay: this probably depends on which your printer
>prints first. In fact making the word lighter will make it look like it
>underlays the text I would think.

I guess the laserwriter prints the footer last, and overprints.

I got underlay by moving the \special{draft-mark.ps} (note that I had
to include the suffix in this TeX implementation) to a header rather
than a footer.  I changed the "80 100 moveto" to "80 -600 moveto",
which, although not perfectly centered, is good enough for me.

I'm using this in combination with fancyheadings and a munged version
of drafthead.sty, so I get (1) date of printing, (2) a little box with
the words draft at the top, in case I'm not on a postscript printer,
and (3) the RCS $Header:$ string of my document, in various places in
the header and footer.
    By the way, does anyone have a package that lets you organize the
RCS strings of all your subdocuments in a useful way?  Something like
printing the RCS strings of all subdocuments visible on a page together
in the header, along with a table of all the subdocument RCS strings
in the history section?



>I could quite get into this postscript lark --- much simpler than TeX :-)

Yeah. It's a pity I don't have access to a text processor that
accesses all the features of Postscript natively, rather than with the
insulation that dvi provides.
    Flame-retardent: I don't mean programming in Postscript).



[*] Have you ever met "der Mouse" from McGill?






--
Andy Glew, aglew@uiuc.edu