If you want to latex your proposal as one big unit so that automatic reference numbers will be generated, you can cut up your proposal into the four little pieces required by the NSF at the dvips stage as follows.
Say your proposal is called proposal.tex and you latex it like this
latex proposal.tex
and this creates a dvi file with pages running from 1 to 15. Suppose the first page is your PROJECT SUMMARY and the last two pages are your REFERENCES. You can extract the three pieces from the dvi file by doing this:
dvips -pp 14-15 -Pweb proposal.dvi mv proposal.ps refs.ps
This command creates a PostScript file proposal.ps which contains only pages 14-15 of your big dvi file. The mv command simply renames the PostScript file refs.ps. Similarly, run
dvips -pp 2-13 -Pweb proposal.dvi mv proposal.ps nsf.ps
to create the PROJECT DESCRIPTION and
dvips -pp 1 -Pweb proposal.dvi mv proposal.ps sum.ps
to create the PROJECT SUMMARY.
(I assume that your BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH is in a separate latex file. If it isn't, you can easily extract it as above too. Otherwise you will also need to run
latex bio.tex dvips -Pweb bio.dvi
to create the file bio.ps
Now you can create the four PDF files below,
sum.pdf A. PROJECT SUMMARY nsf.pdf C. PROJECT DESCRIPTION (including results from prior...) refs.pdf D. REFERENCES bio.pdf E. BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH
by running the commands,
distill sum.ps distill nsf.ps distill refs.ps distill bio.ps
exactly as I explained in Network News, Volume 11.
Now return to Network News, Volume 11.