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From: trevor@linc.cis.upenn.edu (Trevor Darrell)
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Subject: Re: dvi2ps and Psfig/TeX
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Date: 8 Jan 88 16:50:10 GMT
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In article <701@entropy.ms.washington.edu> hubert@entropy.ms.washington.edu (Steve Hubert) writes:
>I'm trying to get Trevor Darrell's Psfig/TeX macros to work with the
>dvi2ps which Chris Torek has available via anonymous ftp.  Psfig is a
>macro package which facilitates the inclusion of PostScript code into
>TeX documents.  It uses the \special command.  However, it is designed
>to work with ArborText's dvips which I don't have.  Has anyone modified
>either Psfig or dvi2ps so that they will work well together?


I just started installing Stephan Bechtolsheim's (i5f@l.cc.purdue.edu)
beta-test version of dvi2ps, in hopes of making the necessary changes
to psfig and dvi2ps for them to work together. (All that psfig
basicallty needs is a \special facililty for file and literal
postscript inclusion. Once I get it fully installed, I don't imagine
it is going to be difficult to get them to co-exist.) Unfortunatly
Stephan does not wish to release his code for general use quite yet,
so I can't promise when it will be available. I have heard rumors of a
few people here and there who have hacked up dvi2ps and psfig, but I 
haven't actually seen any coherent package of code, so I thought I'd
bite the bullet and do it myself now that I have a bit of free time.
If anyone already has a stable dvi2ps that works with psfig, please
get in touch with me. I'll post when I have any distribution info
about dvi2ps and psfig/tex.

thanks,
--trevor