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- From: dgold@basso.actrix.gen.nz (Dale Gold)
- Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
- Subject: Re: How to print only specific pages using dvips?
- References: <1993Jan13.221220.2874@rigel.econ.uga.edu> <dgold.0wel@basso.actrix.gen.nz>
- <WVENABLE.93Jan19235117@attunga.stats.adelaide.edu.au>
- Message-ID: <dgold.0ww0@basso.actrix.gen.nz>
- Date: 21 Jan 93 18:45:57 PST
- Organization: New Zealand Symphony Orchestra
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- Quoted from <WVENABLE.93Jan19235117@attunga.stats.adelaide.edu.au>
- by wvenable@attunga.stats.adelaide.edu.au (Bill Venables):
- > >>>>> "Dale" == Dale Gold <dgold@basso.actrix.gen.nz> writes:
- >
- > Dale> In Rokicki's AmigaTeX version of dvips there are these options:
- > Dale> -p <start> specifies 1st page to print. So -p 3 prints page 3.
- > Dale> -n <pages> number of pages to print.
- >
- > In the versions of dvips I have (Sun Sparc, 5.493, 5.495) "-p 3" will start
- > printing at the first page *that_is_numbered_page_3_by_TeX* in the
- > document. So if you have more than one page numbered "page 3" there seems
- > to be no way to print a part of the document starting from a page 3 other
- > than the first. It would me more useful to have a system that used
- > absolute page numbers rather than TeX created page numbers.
-
- How about '-p 3.1' for the 2nd occurance of page 3? Once again, that
- works on my version, and I guess mileage will vary with others. Sorry
- I didn't mention that in the 1st posting.
-
- Cheers,
- Dale
-
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