From bernadet@ed.aisb Sun Aug 23 18:45:08 1992
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From: PANDA'S WASP <bernadet@ed.aisb>
To: Ian Porter <ianport@ed.aisb>
Organisation: Dept. of Artificial Intelligence, Univ. of Edinburgh.
Status: RO

his is a broadcast message I never sent yet... 


... and printing time!

Sorry if this message is even more confusing than most of mine, but
here is a totally obscure way of printing out your thesis two pages
to a sheet.  If you were already using halfprint, notice this is better
because a) it works on ANY postscript printer without you knowing magic 
numbers and b) it gets the page numbers on the bottom.

anything in a [] is optional, anything in a {} you should put your own
name in instead.

dvips -r0 -x 780 -f [-p {page to start printing on}] [-l {number of pages to 
print}] {name of your file}.dvi | pstops '2:0L(28cm,-1.5cm)+1L(28cm,12cm)' | 
lpr -P {name of a postscript printer, ie lw??}

so, for example, you might use 

dvips -r0 -x 780 -f -l 2 make.dvi | pstops '2:0L(28cm,-1.5cm)+1L(28cm,12cm)' | lpr -P lwSB

to get the first four pages of your thesis on two pages.
(don't ask me why it's not the first 2 pages of your thesis on 1 page!)

Joanna



From rocio@ed.aisb Tue Aug 25 08:28:00 1992
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From: Rocio Aguilar-Chongtay <rocio@ed.aisb>
Subject: Re: xfig guru
To: Ian Porter <ianport@ed.aisb>
In-Reply-To: Ian Porter's message of Mon, 24 Aug 92 20:13:00 BST
Organisation: Dept. of Artificial Intelligence, Univ. of Edinburgh.
Status: RO

No but there is another way to see your .eps figures and it is as
follows:

/* run first the following command */

       dvips make.dvi > make.ps

/*  and to see your text and figures with the next */


       gs make.ps


-----------------------------------------------------
to include the figures in the latex text for the .eps the best way to do
it and avoiding to find the appropriate coordinates is:

/* include the following line as the first line in your make.tex: */

      \input epsf


/* then in the place where you want to include your figure put the next
lines: */

\begin{figure}[htb]
\begin{center}
\unitlength = 1mm
\mbox{\epsfxsize = 4.5in \epsfbox{figurename.eps}}
\end{center}
\caption{The visualpath}
\label{vis}
\end{figure}


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you can play with the size modifying the number which is in front of
epsfxsize.


I hope this is the information that you need

enjoy yourself

Rocio


