--- loncom/interface/lonprintout.pm	2007/04/17 15:45:03	1.497
+++ loncom/interface/lonprintout.pm	2007/04/20 20:13:58	1.498
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 # The LearningOnline Network
 # Printout
 #
-# $Id: lonprintout.pm,v 1.497 2007/04/17 15:45:03 www Exp $
+# $Id: lonprintout.pm,v 1.498 2007/04/20 20:13:58 foxr Exp $
 #
 # Copyright Michigan State University Board of Trustees
 #
@@ -48,6 +48,34 @@ my %perm;
 my %parmhash;
 my $resources_printed;
 
+# Fetch the contents of a resource, uninterpreted.
+# This is used here to fetch a latex file to be included
+# verbatim into the printout<
+# NOTE: Ask Guy if there is a lonnet function similar to this?
+#
+# Parameters:
+#   URL of the file
+#
+sub fetch_raw_resource {
+    my ($url) = @_;
+
+    my $filename  = &Apache::lonnet::filelocation("", $url);
+    #
+    # fetch if needed:
+    #
+    if (! -e $filename) {
+	my $repcopy_result = &Apache::lonnet::repcopy($filename);
+
+	if ($repcopy_result ne 'ok') {
+	    return "File open failed for $filename";   # This will bomb the print.
+	}
+    }
+    my $contents = &Apache::lonnet::readfile($filename);
+
+    return $contents;
+    
+}
+
 #
 #   printf_style_subst  item format_string repl
 #  
@@ -1455,6 +1483,13 @@ ENDPART
 		$resources_printed .= $currentURL.':';
 		my $texversion=&Apache::lonnet::ssi($currentURL,%form);
 		$result .= $texversion;
+	} elsif ($cleanURL =~/.tex$/) {
+	    # For this sort of print of a single LaTeX file,
+	    # We can just print the LaTeX file as it is uninterpreted in any way:
+	    #
+
+	    $result = &fetch_raw_resource($currentURL);
+
 	} else {
 	    $result.=&unsupported($currentURL,$helper->{'VARS'}->{'LATEX_TYPE'},
 				  $helper->{'VARS'}->{'symb'});