Date: Sat, 8 Jul 2000 22:10:19 +0530 From: Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in> To: "Richard E. Hawkins" <hawk@fac13.ds.psu.edu> Cc: David@SkytrackerCanada.com, Lowell Gilbert <lowell@lowellg.ne.mediaone.net>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: way to pipe latex files to printer? Message-ID: <20000708221019.A491@physics.iisc.ernet.in> In-Reply-To: <200007081626.MAA06431@fac13.ds.psu.edu>; from hawk@fac13.ds.psu.edu on Sat, Jul 08, 2000 at 12:26:13PM -0400 References: <3966CA73.18B2819C@www3.pacific-pages.com> <200007081626.MAA06431@fac13.ds.psu.edu>
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Richard E. Hawkins said on Jul 8, 2000 at 12:26:13: > > cat $1 > /tmp/templatex.tex > > latex /tmp/templatex > > dvips templatex > > > which I call "lat" - my report program creates the tex program, then > > pipes it into "lat" > > > seems to work fine - thanks for your comments. > > It will work fine within limits. If you see [??] or similar things in > your output, it is because tex needed to run more than once, which will > be the case if you have cross-references. In fact there are occasions when you need to run it three times. But running it three times on every document via your script would be overdoing it. And then when you're latex'ing other peoples' documents, you may run into problems with missing style files and so on. I'd stick to running latex manually. But maybe that's just me: if you're mainly doing letters and such things which don't have cross-references, your way may make more sense. Rahul. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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