[tex-k] (fwd) Bug#337805: tetex-bin: dvips should include document's title in Postscript instead of DVI filename

[Karl Berry]

Hi Hilmar,

    We'd like to know if that feature is already
    implemented in dvips 

Not that I'm aware of.

    and if yes how do one has to use it.
    If no: would it be easy to implement (perhaps over some \special)?

As you surmise, the \title string would have to be written as a
\special.  That is the painful part, because the title can contain
arbitrary TeX commands, but for this purpose you want more-or-less human
text.  And anyway, I rather doubt the LaTeX people will be interested in
changing the core classes to output a special at \title time.  I might
always be wrong.  If you want to pursue it, you could submit a request
via the latex bugs database (see latex-project.org).

What *would* be easy is to implement an option in dvips such that you
could say
  dvips --title="History of Foo" foo.dvi
and have it change the %%Title output.  But would anyone really bother
to use it?

Best,
Karl