On Sat, Nov 13, 2004 at 09:13:57PM +0000, Stephen Patterson wrote: > On Sat, 13 Nov 2004 21:00:20 +0100, David wrote: > > The solution I've come up with is to rely upon Latex. That is, generate > > the output text, insert any tex formatting and send this to a temporary > > file, let "dvips" convert to postscript and pipe this to "lp" or "lpr". > > I've used latex before, but that needs to generate a fair number of > files from your input foo.tex document, so it can be painful making > sure that none of these overwrite existing files and to clean them all > up afterwards.
Yes, this is one aspect of latex that has to be considered - and I had thought about it. If I go this route, I would think that the best way would be to create temporary files in, perhaps /tmp, with names determined with mktemp() or mkstemp() or the like. > groff is neater in this respect, as you can just pipe > strings into the lpr command. I hadn't thought about groff. I'll give this some consideration. Thanks for the input. It may prove to be quite helpful. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
