[vox-tech] graph paper

[Trevor M. Lango]

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|From: vox-tech-admin@lists.lugod.org [mailto:vox-tech-
|admin@lists.lugod.org] On Behalf Of Dave Margolis
|Sent: Tuesday, February 10, 2004 3:08 PM
|To: vox-tech@lists.lugod.org
|Subject: Re: [vox-tech] graph paper
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|On Tue, 10 Feb 2004, Bill Kendrick wrote:
|
|> On Tue, Feb 10, 2004 at 12:58:47PM -0800, Dave Margolis wrote:
|> Hrm.  I have a little script I downloaded for printing envelopes.
|> All it does is dump PostScript.  So perhaps a PS expert around here might
|> be willing to throw something similar together, for generating
|> arbitarily-shaped graphs on arbitrary paper sizes ;)
|
|OK, _dump postscript_ was exactly the route I was thinking too.  Using the
|spreadsheet method doesn't seem to be working since I've yet to produce
|any printed output when attempting to print empty cells.  I've been
|through all the OO settings 6 or 7 times, but I'm still probably printing
|something obivous...  If anybody has any advice there, let me know.


You need to define the print range if the spreadsheet is entirely empty.


|Either way, a little shell script really is what I was going for.
|
|>
|> [La]TeX might be the way to go, too.  Either way, I'd imagine something
|like:
|>
|>   graphpaper --paper letter --gridsize 0.5inch | lpr
|>
|
|Ha! Perhaps this is my next project...
|
|>
|> I love Unix.
|
|me too!
|
|>
|> -bill!
|> bill@newbreedsoftware.com           "Hey Shatner, ya remember that
|episode of
|> http://newbreedsoftware.com/bill/   Space Trek where your show got
|cancelled?"
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