URL: <https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?66835>
Summary: Allow setting page size within the document
Group: GNU roff
Submitter: barx
Submitted: Sun 23 Feb 2025 03:34:59 PM CST
Category: Core
Severity: 1 - Wish
Item Group: Feature change
Status: None
Privacy: Public
Assigned to: None
Open/Closed: Open
Discussion Lock: Any
Planned Release: None
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Date: Sun 23 Feb 2025 03:34:59 PM CST By: Dave <barx>
It has come up on the email list a couple of times
(http://lists.gnu.org/r/groff/2011-01/msg00101.html,
http://lists.gnu.org/r/groff/2021-05/msg00074.html, maybe others) that some
users want to create documents with pages of different sizes. This is
especially true in the paperless age, where the size of a given page need not
depend on stock paper sizes, but can be chosen based on how best to present
that page's content.
Currently the only way to accomplish this is by sending commands directly to
the postprocessor, via \X or similar, which limits portability. It would be
better to have a roff-language syntax that worked for all typesetter output
formats.
An in-document mechanism to specify a page size would be useful even for
documents that never change this size: currently, setting the page size to
something other than the system default requires a command-line switch. If a
document is carefully composed to require a certain page size, the document
itself should be able to specify this size.
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