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

[Valeriy E. Ushakov]

On Tue, Jul 17, 2001 at 08:42:38 +1000, Jeff Kingston wrote:

> On Mon, 16 Jul 2001 10:30:34 +0300 (IDT), Efraim Yawitz wrote:
> 
> > 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.
> 
> You can't, and it sounds like a hard problem.  The best you could do
> would be to run your PostScript through a filter that splits it into
> one file for each page, then @IncludeGraphic those pages into your
> Lout document.

I second this.  To get an idea of how hard it could be, try to paste
together two ps documents each produced by, say, troff.

Your best bet seems to be what Jeff suggests with the little help from
ps2epsi (that, BTW, uses full PS interpreter to do its job).

SY, Uwe
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