[2560] in SIPB bug reports
dvips man page
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (amgreene@Athena.MIT.EDU)
Thu Mar 5 16:39:42 1992
From: amgreene@Athena.MIT.EDU
Date: Thu, 5 Mar 92 16:38:52 -0500
To: jik@pit-manager.MIT.EDU
Cc: leira@Athena.MIT.EDU, bug-sipb@Athena.MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: "Jonathan I. Kamens"'s message of Thu, 5 Mar 92 14:30:08 -0500 <9203051930.AA28898@pit-manager.MIT.EDU>
Date: Thu, 5 Mar 92 14:30:08 -0500
From: "Jonathan I. Kamens" <jik@pit-manager.MIT.EDU>
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.
TeX has ten "page number" counters, \count0 through \count9. The first
one, \count0, is what we all think of as the page number (and what dvips
uses). The others are "sub-page numbers;" for example my calendar
macros print each month on two pages (in order to increase the size),
and numbers the pages 1.0, 1.1, 2.0, 2.1, etc.
I believe dvi2ps uses the actual count of "End Of Page" tokens in the
dvi file. Thus, to print February (assuming my calendar runs from Jan.
to Dec.), I'd specify pages from 2 to 2 in dvips, but 3 to 4 in dvi2ps.
This will cause confusion if one has an unnumbered title page followed by
page "1" of the document. dvips will use the actual page number, dvi2ps
will use the actual number of pages. Big difference. :-)
- Rhu
