Operation of the TeX system within a general UNIX environment, rather than specifically Linux.
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How to make sure that a source file is in UNIX mode?
How to make sure that a source file is in UNIX mode?
In other words, how to check that every line in a text file is ended by LF rather then CR+LF? I am asking because a package intended for ...
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How does latex source multiple configuration files..?
I have got a very peculiar question I'd like to ask about my latex processor:
In my school we are using the pdfTeXk backend. At some point there was a need to make a few configuration changes within ...
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write output of dvips to a file
Sorry if this is a simple question.
I want to write the output of dvips to a file (i.e. something like a log file for dvips). I tried this but it gives an empty file:
dvips input.dvi > ...
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Unix Text Processing [closed]
In 1987 Dale Dougherty and Tim O'Reilly wrote a marvelous book Unix Text Processing which is now freely available. The book gives tour the force introduction to the world of Unix text processing ...