[2557] in SIPB bug reports
dvips man page
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathan I. Kamens)
Thu Mar 5 14:31:14 1992
Date: Thu, 5 Mar 92 14:30:08 -0500
From: "Jonathan I. Kamens" <jik@pit-manager.MIT.EDU>
To: leira@Athena.MIT.EDU
Cc: bug-sipb@Athena.MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Linda L. Julien's message of Mon, 3 Feb 92 22:07:34 -0500 <9202040307.AA20599@hodge>
Date: Mon, 3 Feb 92 22:07:34 -0500
From: Linda L. Julien <leira@Athena.MIT.EDU>
The dvips man page is not explicit about how pages are numbered (i.e.
whether the first page is 0 or 1). In addition, the dvi2ps man page
*is* explicit, and does it the other way.
First of all, I don't understand what you mean when you say that the
dvi2ps man page is explicit -- I don't see any mention in it at all of
what the first page is numbered. It says something about "\count0",
but I don't see how that could be called "explicit."
Second, it seems to me that dvips does, at least implicitly, imply
that the page numbers it uses are the page numbers placed into the
file by tex. It says:
-p num
The first page printed will be the first one numbered
num. Default is the first page in the document.
If it is possible for more than one page in the DVI file to have the
same page number, as it must be if the man page considers it necessary
to say "the first one," then the numbers dvips is using MUST be the
numbers inserted into the file by tex.
If you think the man page needs changing, I suggest you give us a
concrete idea of how you think it would be changed, i.e. tell us
exactly what text you think should be added or changed, what it should
be changed to, and where it should go in the man page.
jik
