Re: [Help-gsl] Where can find hyperlink enabled document in pdf

[Hongzheng Wang]

I am sorry for the typo in preview mail.  Should be `Dear Brian Gough'
of course :)

On Sun, Mar 29, 2009 at 11:21 PM, Hongzheng Wang <address@hidden> wrote:
> Dear Bran Gough,
>
> Frankly, I used a quite dirty solution to generate these pdf files.
> That is, I first inserted `\nopagenumbers' and changed `\endinput' to
> `\bye' for each *.tex files generated by randplots.gnp.  Then I texed
> each of them, followed by `dvips', `ps2eps', and `epstopdf'
> instructions.
>
> To be specific,
>
> step 1: modify `rand-gumbel.tex' so that it has the similar structures
> with other files
> command 1: sed -i -e '$ a\
> \\endinput' rand-gumbel.tex
>
> step 2: insert `\nopagenumbers' and chang `\endinput' to `\bye'
> command 2: for i in `ls rand*.tex`; do sed -i -e '1 a\
> \\nopagenumbers' -e '$s/\\endinput/\\bye/' $i; done
>
> step 3: tex each file
> command 3: for i in `ls rand*.tex`; do tex $i; done
>
> step 4: dvips each file
> command 4: for i in `ls rand*.dvi`; do dvips $i; done
>
> step 5: ps2eps each file, so that the blank margins can be removed
> command 5: for i in `ls rand*.ps`; do ps2eps $i; done
>
> step 6: generate pdf files
> command 6: for i in `ls rand*.ps`; do ps2eps $i; done
>
> Now, we have all the pdf files needed, including random-walk.pdf.
>
> I am not expert on TeX and gnuplot, so the method I used may be far
> from optimal and looks dirty, and more importantly, error-prone.  Any
> improvements are welcome.
>
>
>
> On Sun, Mar 29, 2009 at 3:47 PM, Brian Gough <address@hidden> wrote:
>> At Sun, 22 Mar 2009 11:51:16 +0800,
>> Hongzheng Wang wrote:
>>> Thank you for your kind explanation.  As a temporary solution, I
>>> manually converted the figures used in randist.texi into pdf format
>>
>> How did you do the conversion?  We'd need to be able to regenerate the
>> figures if the plots change, ideally directly from gnuplot.  The
>> gnuplot file is doc/randplots.gnp.
>>
>> --
>> Brian Gough
>>
>
>
>
> --
> HZ
>



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HZ