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From: kamath@reed.UUCP (Sean Kamath)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: Mac & TeX
Message-ID: <11586@reed.UUCP>
Date: 24 Jan 89 02:39:55 GMT
References: <8901190344.AA10317@uicsl.csl.uiuc.edu>
Reply-To: kamath@reed.UUCP (Sean Kamath)
Organization: Reed College, Portland OR
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In article <8901190344.AA10317@uicsl.csl.uiuc.edu> najm@UICSL.CSL.UIUC.EDU (Farid Nasri Najm) writes:
>Is there a way to convert a MacDraw or MacPaint document to a TeX
>command file? Please help.
>
>Farid (najm@uicsl.csl.uiuc.edu)


There is a command in TeX called \special that allows you to enter a "token
list" for direct input to the .dvi file.  In the case of dvi2ps, you can get
postscript directly entered.

I.e.  You do the command-f technique to get postscript output of the
picture, and put that in the file "pic1", say.  Then, in the TeX file,

[blech blech blech]
\special {pic1}
[continue]

I have never tried it however, but that is about the only way to do it from
within TeX.

I like the "make room for the pic in TeX (via a vbox 3cm or whatever) and
run the sheet through the printer a second time to prin the pic from the
Mac" method.  It's a kludge, but it works.

Sean Kamath
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