Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!mcsun!corton!irisa!decouty From: decouty@irisa.fr (Bertrand Decouty) Newsgroups: comp.text.tex Subject: Re: Answers to two really hard LaTeX puzzles (long) Message-ID: <1990Nov14.093033.23993@irisa.fr> Date: 14 Nov 90 09:30:33 GMT References: <90Nov13.135116edt.102@smoke.cs.toronto.edu> Sender: news@irisa.fr Organization: IRISA-INRIA, Campus de Beaulieu, 35042 Rennes Cedex, FRANCE Lines: 39 In article <90Nov13.135116edt.102@smoke.cs.toronto.edu> sjb@cs.toronto.edu (Stephen Bellantoni) writes: | | Thanks to all the people who replied to these puzzles. One of the | problems is totally solved, the other is mostly solved. | [...] | | (2) How to print postscript documents "2-up". | | Basically the answer to this is to get a special dvi interpreter. | I wasn't able to get one that worked for me --- your mileage may vary. | Specific suggestions I received were: | | (a) Use the program "psnup" from wuarchive.wustl or simtel20, in [...] | (b) Use the program "mpage" (from the same archive directory as psnup). [...] | (c) Use the "up" perl shell script. This is a perl script which chops [...] | (d) Add "a very small amount of code" to your local dvi processor. | Variations on this were suggested by Timothy Murphy | and by Jeremy.Gibbons@prg.oxford.ac.uk. (e) use multi! enables you to print 2/4/8/16 (if you still can read!) on a physical sheet of paper. VERY fine, and it works (with dvips, mp, enscript). multi is a shell script which adds before and after your ps file a prologue and a postlogue. Available, among other sites, at irisa.irisa.fr, cd Postscript. I have added some options to the shell script and written a man page. PS: i am NOT the author of multi, who is Ross Cartlidge . Thanks to him. | [...] Bertrand Decouty -- [ Bertrand DECOUTY | EMAIL : decouty@irisa.fr, decouty@irisa.uucp ] [ IRISA - INRIA (Atelier) | {uunet,mcsun,inria}!irisa!decouty ] [ Campus de Beaulieu | PHONE : +33 99 36 20 00 ] [ F-35042 Rennes Cedex - FRANCE| FAX : +33 99 38 38 32 | TELEX: 950473 UNIRISA]