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From: av@kielo.uta.fi (Arto V. Viitanen)
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Subject: Re: SCCS and LaTeX
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Date: 23 Oct 90 11:04:30 GMT
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In-reply-to: tim@maths.tcd.ie's message of 23 Oct 90 02:22:00 GMT

>>>>> On 23 Oct 90 02:22:00 GMT, tim@maths.tcd.ie (Timothy Murphy) said:

Timothy> 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 ??

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

Ok, your right. Knuth says "The <token list> is a \special command should
consist of a keyword followed if necessary by a space and appropriate
arguments" (TeXBook p. 228). I thought, that if driver does not know keyword,
it does not guess.. (like texx).

Uwe Geuder <geuder@az3.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de> sent me solution to
problem:  The dvips man page tells, that \special{" <any post script command>}
is an acceptable syntax for dvips. Since % is comment for PostScript,
following works:

{%
\catcode`\#=11
\catcode`\"=11
\catcode'\%=11
\special{"%what: %A%}
}%

Thank you Uwe!

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Arto V. Viitanen				         email: av@kielo.uta.fi
University Of Tampere,				   	    av@ohdake.cs.uta.fi
Finland