On Wed, May 31, 2006 at 08:27:29AM -0400, Jon Snader wrote:
> On Wed, May 31, 2006 at 11:32:00AM +0930, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote:
> > I have a design document that I need to output in two forms: as a
> > properly typeset PostScript file (troff) and in plain text (nroff). I
> > want the latter not to have page breaks. I've tried a number of
> > things, but I have two problems:
> >
> > 1. I can't find a number register than I can tweak to change the page
> > height. The ones I find are read-only and can only be set from
> > the command line.
> >
> > 2. The document contains footnotes. If I do set a large page size
> > from the command line, I have to guess it exactly, or I end up
> > with a footnote separated from the rest of the document by a lot
> > of white space.
> >
> > Any ideas? I'm looking for a solution to my original problem, but it
> > would also be nice to know how to reset page height from within a
> > document.
> >
>
> Add a
>
> if n .pl 5000
>
> (or whatever number is large enough to contain your entire
> document) to the beginning of the file. Now the problem is that
> you will have a bunch of blank lines at the end. Fix this by
> adding a
>
> .if n .pl \n[nl]u
>
> to the end of the file. This last trick is from Werner.
>
> jcs
>
>
I frequently email drafts of documents to others who don't like
postscript or need a pdf. I use mm, don't know if this would
work for other packages--
nroff -rN2 -rL999 -t -mm <fname> | col -bx | cat -s
Perhaps this helps?
Rgds,
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Mike Bishop 907/495-5737 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Willow, Alaska
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