Re: To Jeff/Uwe...just asking...

[Efraim Yawitz]

On Mon, 16 Jul 2001, Jeff Kingston wrote:

> On Sun, 15 Jul 2001 17:44:13 +0100, Graham Douglas wrote:
> 
>   > The @Filter allows you to run commands, but, I guess,
>   > if you had *a lot* of these, it would greatly slow
>   > Lout as it repeatedly executed system(...)
>   > commands -- and all the file I/O etc. 
>   > (or would it?)
> 
> This is what happens now when you use Lout to format computer programs
> as described in the User's Guide.  Yes, it does slow things down quite
> a lot, but still not to a point where it's unusable at all.
> 
On the subject of formatting computer programs, is there any way to just
incorporate the output of say, a2ps or enscript into a lout document?  In
general, how could you put some externally generated (multi-page)
PostScript into a lout doc while maintaining page nos.?  It doesn't seem
like just making a @Graphic would be good enough.

Ephraim