The dvipaste program was first described in the article HI-TeX Cutting & Pasting in TUGboat, Volume 10 (1989), No. 2, pages 164--165. Consult this article for further details. (``TUGboat, The Communications of the TeX Users Group'', is published by TeX Users Group, P. O. Box 9506, Providence, RI 02940.) The dvipaste program is designed to produce files that conform to the TeX specifications for .dvi files, even though they may actually be too big to be produced with normal implementations of TeX (because of limitations on memory size). More particularly, it allows the material appearing on individual pages of a `secondary' file to be inserted into a `main' file. The `secondary' file, say `extra.tex', should be of the form \input dvipaste \input or \sendout{\csq} or \sendout{\box0 } \sendout{...} . . . \end The main file, say `big.tex', should have \input dvipaste at the beginning, and then \paste{extra}{} at any point, to indicate that the material on page of `extra.dvi' is to be pasted in at that point. The secondary file `extra.tex' must be TeX'ed before the main file, because the \paste commands use information from a file `extra.dat' that is created when the secondary file is TeX'ed. When the main file is TeX'ed, blank spaces of the proper size will appear at the points where the \paste commands were placed. After using the dvipaste program, dvipaste big the new big.dvi file will actually have the proper material from the secondary file pasted in, and will give the desired result when printed out. [You can also type dvipaste big newbig if you want to save the big.dvi file, and create a new .dvi file, newbig.dvi. (With TeXtures you MUST choose a new name, because TeXtures won't allow you to make a TeXtures document out of a different big.dvi when the first one already exists as a resource to big.tex.)] The dvipaste.tex macro package will not allow both a \sendout and a \paste to occur in the same file, so that a file must be used either as a main file or as a secondary file. However, an arbitrary number of secondary files can be used in a main file, and the 's appearing in \paste commands do not have to be consecutive. * * * The lamstex.tex macro package essentially includes the part of the dvipaste.tex macro packages that is used to make \paste be defined. The lamstbl.tex macro package essentially includes the part of the dvipaste.tex macro package that is used to make \sendout be defined. However, \sendout is never actually used in LamS-TeX because an \endtable in a LamS-TeX tables file essentially does the \sendout. * * * One possible use for dvipaste.tex is for files produced by PiCTeX. The .dvi files that PiCTeX produces for a figure are often so large that although the figure alone can be printed, it cannot be combined with other text on that page, because TeX doesn't have enough memory to store such a large .dvi file (especially when it has to store all the macros being used). For such situations, one could create a secondary file for the pictures, \input dvipaste \input pictex \sendout{the picture} . . . and then \paste the pictures into the main file at the appropriate point. This should be applicable with LamS-TeX also. The secondary file, say `pictures.tex', should be treated as an ordinary TeX file, NOT as a LamS-TeX file (if the pictures include some text, new fonts can be introduced after the \input pictex line, if necessary). Then in the main LamS-TeX file, \paste{pictures}{} can be inserted at any point. For example, you might use such a \paste instead of an \hbyw{...}{...} construction in a \figure ... \endfigure. * * * * * * EXAMPLE OF THE USE OF DVIPASTE The files boxes1.tex, boxes2.tex, and join.tex all begin with \input dvipaste and illustrate the general use of the dvipaste program. To see it action, (1) First do tex boxes1 and tex boxes2 This will produce boxes1.dvi and boxes2.dvi, which you can print or view, as well as boxes1.dat and boxes2.dat. (2) Then, once boxes1.dat and boxes2.dat have been produced, do tex join producing join.dvi, which you can print or view. (3) Finally, do dvipaste join newjoin to produce a newjoin.dvi. When you view or print this, the boxes will have been pasted in. (4) You can also simply do dvipaste join if you want the old join.dvi to be replaced by a new one, with the boxes pasted in (not possible with TeXtures).