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t...@cavell.uucp

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Oct 21, 1986, 11:52:29 AM10/21/86
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Can anyone tell me how to print specific pages or groups of pages from
a large, complex, TeX document? (Something along the lines of the -o
parameter to nroff.) Please mail responses. Thanks.

Tim Breitkreutz
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Comfy chair

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Oct 23, 1986, 3:27:26 AM10/23/86
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In article <9...@cavell.UUCP> t...@cavell.UUCP writes:
|Can anyone tell me how to print specific pages or groups of pages from
|a large, complex, TeX document? (Something along the lines of the -o
|parameter to nroff.) Please mail responses. Thanks.

Some dvi to printer format filters have a flag to select pages.
There is also the dviselect program, on the Unix TeX tape.

Ken

Chris Torek

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Oct 28, 1986, 6:25:50 PM10/28/86
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>In article <9...@cavell.UUCP> t...@cavell.UUCP writes:
>|Can anyone tell me how to print specific pages or groups of pages from
>|a large, complex, TeX document?

In article <21...@rochester.ARPA> k...@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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