In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Haines Brown wrote: >> >> On Fri, Feb 06, 2004 at 11:37:00AM -0500, Haines Brown wrote: >> > When I migrated to debian, I lost my ability to print LaTeX files. No >> > information is sent to the printer. >> > >> > The printer driver is dvips, and I assumed that it was included in the >> > LaTeX package, for that was the case with my LaTeX installation under >> > RedHat. Under Debian, is the driver a separate package, and if so what >> > is it called? >> > >> I would guess that what is happening is that you are running dvips and >> expecting seing your file coming from the printer. Well, at least in >> sid, when you run dvips it works as if you were using >> "dvips -o file.ps file.dvi", so a solution could be to turn this off. > > Interesting. I always used dvips to create the .ps file and print it > simultaneously, and you are correct that it works under woody as if > the -o option were present. But the man offered no clue as to how to > "turn off" the option which is not on to begin with (unless it is > present in a dvips script somewhere).
It does: dvips -o '!lpr' file.dvi But indeed the change of default behaviour did happen silently, and could be better described in the manual page, at the thop of the man file, it still reads - The program dvips takes a DVI file file[.dvi] produced by TeX (or by - some other processor such as GFtoDVI) and converts it to PostScript, - normally sending the result directly to the (laser)printer -- joostje -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
