[tex-k] dvips question or problem not sure which

[Warren L Dodge]

Thank you everyone for their help in this. The -l does the trick.

>  Date: Tue, 8 Jul 2003 10:47:10 -0400
>  From: karl at freefriends.org (Karl Berry)
>  Cc: kakuto at fsci.fuk.kindai.ac.jp, tex-k at mail.tug.org
>  
>      I had to quote the =1 to not get a directory
>      stack error message
>  
>  That sounds like a function of the shell you're using, nothing about dvips.
>  
>      dvips -p "=1" -n 50 -o e emacs.dvi
>      This is dvips(k) 5.92b Copyright 2002 Radical Eye Software (www.radicaleye.com)
>      ' TeX output 2003.05.06:1137' -> e
>      <texc.pro><f7b6d320.enc><bbad153f.enc><09fbbfac.enc><74afc74c.enc><texps.pro>
>      . <cmr8.pfb><cmsy9.pfb><cmti10.pfb><cmtt9.pfb><cmsl9.pfb><cmbx12.pfb>
>      <cmb10.pfb><cmsl10.pfb><cmtt10.pfb><cmsy10.pfb><cmr10.pfb>[1] [2] [3] [4] [1] 
>      [2] [3] [4]  ...  [46] 
>  
>  It's doing what it's being told to do ...  It is starting at the first
>  physical page, and ending 50 pages later.  The confusion is that there
>  are two pages numbered `1', two pages numbered `2', and so on.  This is
>  due to various infelicities in texinfo.tex.
>  
>  If you really want to end at the page numbered 50, you can use -l 50.
>  
>  Also, you may wish to create emacs.dvi like this:
>  
>  texi2dvi -t @setcontentsaftertitlepage -t @setshortcontentsaftertitlepage\
>   emacs.texi
>  
>  That way, the short and full contents will be printed after the title
>  page (where they should be), instead of at the very end of the document.
>  
>  Happy printing,
>  karl
>