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@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.TH DVIPS 1 "1 February 2016"
+.TH DVIPS 1 "24 October 2021"
.SH NAME
dvips \- convert a TeX DVI file to PostScript
.SH SYNOPSIS
@@ -10,8 +10,7 @@ THIS MAN PAGE IS OBSOLETE!
See the Texinfo documentation instead.
You can read it either in Emacs or with the standalone
.B info
-program which comes with the GNU texinfo distribution as
-ftp.gnu.org:pub/gnu/texinfo/texinfo*.tar.gz.
+program.
.PP
The program
.B dvips
@@ -211,7 +210,13 @@ with
values. Thus, using
.I -l =9
will end with the ninth page of the document, no matter what the pages
-are actually numbered.
+are actually numbered. On the other hand, if
+.I num
+is suffixed by `.SEQ', the SEQth occurrence of
+.I num
+is used; for example,
+.I -l 99.2
+says to end processing with the second page numbered 99 in the document.
.TP
.B -m
Specify manual feed for printer.
@@ -312,19 +317,9 @@ default position (of one inch down, one inch to the right from the upper
left corner of the paper) by this amount.
.TP
.B -p num
-The first page printed will be the first one numbered
-.IR num .
-Default is the first page in the document. If the
-.I num
-is prefixed by an equals sign, then it (and any argument to the
+Just like
.I -l
-option) is treated as a sequence number, rather than a value to compare
-with
-.I \ecount0
-values. Thus, using
-.I -p =3
-will start with the third page of the document, no matter what the pages
-are actually numbered.
+but for the first page in the document.
.TP
.B -pp pagelist
A comma-separated list of pages and ranges (a-b) may be given, which
@@ -512,9 +507,9 @@ information. Especially useful at high resolutions or when very large
fonts are used. Will slow down printing somewhat, especially on early
68000-based PostScript printers.
.SH "SEE ALSO"
-mf(1), afm2tfm(1), tex(1), latex(1), lpr(1),
+afm2tfm(1), tex(1), mf(1), dvitype(1), lpr(1),
.IR dvips.texi ,
-http://tug.org/dvips.
+https://tug.org/dvips.
.SH ENVIRONMENT
Dvipsk uses the same environment variables and algorithms for finding
font files as TeX and its friends do. See the documentation for the
@@ -531,4 +526,4 @@ by Don Knuth. Path searching and configuration modifications by
Karl Berry.
.PP
Maintained in TeX Live; please send bug reports or other correspondence
-to tex-k@tug.org (http://lists.tug.org/tex-k).
+to tex-k@tug.org (https://lists.tug.org/tex-k).