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From: chris@umcp-cs.UUCP (Chris Torek)
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Subject: Re: TeX page control
Message-ID: <4043@umcp-cs.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 28-Oct-86 18:25:50 EST
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Posted: Tue Oct 28 18:25:50 1986
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>In article <934@cavell.UUCP> tim@cavell.UUCP writes:
>|Can anyone tell me how to print specific pages or groups of pages from
>|a large, complex, TeX document?

In article <21863@rochester.ARPA> ken@rochester.UUCP (Comfy chair) writes:
>Some dvi to printer format filters have a flag to select pages.

And of course, each one works differently.

>There is also the dviselect program, on the Unix TeX tape.

Which I wrote to combat this problem.  Why should each dvi-to-printer
driver have its own page selection mechanism?  Just because TeX
was originally written on a DEC-20 does not mean it should not
borrow some Unix philosophy.  Write tools, not just solutions!

(Incidentally, if your dviselect is below revision 1.12, it has
a bug dealing with \special s.  Get a new Unix TeX tape....)
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