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From: tim@maths.tcd.ie (Timothy Murphy)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: SCCS and LaTeX
Message-ID: <1990Oct23.022200.6814@maths.tcd.ie>
Date: 23 Oct 90 02:22:00 GMT
References: <AV.90Oct22100439@kielo.uta.fi>
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Organization: Dept. of Maths, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland.
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In <AV.90Oct22100439@kielo.uta.fi> av@kielo.uta.fi (Arto V. Viitanen) writes:

>BUT, dvips and dvi2ps (dvi printing programs for PostScript) think, that
>'what:' is for them and they insert contents of the file mentioned in
>\special to PostScript file and LaserWriter does not understand LaTeX!. I
>thought Knuth said in TeXBook, that \special's first word says for which
>program \special is for ??

I cannot find any such statement in the TeXbook.
However, it would seem to me courteous of driver writers
to follow such a practice.

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Timothy Murphy  

e-mail: tim@maths.tcd.ie