On 30-Dec-08 11:50:21, Chris Schaller wrote: > Hi, > Trying to add printer's marks to my roff documents. I stumbled across > groff's graphics commands, but all of them start from current location > and I did not find a command to move the current location to an > arbitrary position. > > Is there any way to add those marks to a groff source or do I have to > add postscript code via \X'ps: <I'm lost here>'? > > Cheers, > Chris
If you're referring to "cut-marks" or "crop-marks", the following is an example of what I have used. It is invoked at the first (left-justified) printing position on a page by \*[crop_marks] The detailed metrics were defined by the application; you may probably need to change these to suit yourself. But it can be done in troff! Hoping this helps, Ted. ====================================================================== .ds crop_marks \ \Z'\ \D't 100u'\h'-100u'\ \v'-7000u-0.7c'\h'-0.7c'\ \Z'\h'-0.2c'\D'l -0.8c 0''\Z'\v'-0.2c'\D'l 0 -0.8c''\ '\ \Z'\ \v'-7000u-0.7c'\h'210p+0.7c'\ \Z'\h'+0.2c'\D'l +0.8c 0''\Z'\v'-0.2c'\D'l 0 -0.8c''\ '\ \Z'\ \v'-7000u+414p+0.7c'\h'-0.7c'\ \Z'\h'-0.2c'\D'l -0.8c 0''\Z'\v'+0.2c'\D'l 0 +0.8c''\ '\ \Z'\ \v'-7000u+414p+0.7c'\h'210p+0.7c'\ \Z'\h'+0.2c'\D'l +0.8c 0''\Z'\v'+0.2c'\D'l 0 +0.8c''\ '\ \Z'\ \v'-7000u+207p'\h'-1.3c'\ \Z'\D'l -0.4c 0''\Z'\D'l 0 +0.8c''\Z'\D'l +0.4c 0''\Z'\D'l 0 -0.8c''\ \Z'\h'-0.2c'\D'c 0.4c''\ '\ \Z'\ \v'-7000u+207p'\h'+1.3c+210p'\ \Z'\D'l -0.4c 0''\Z'\D'l 0 +0.8c''\Z'\D'l +0.4c 0''\Z'\D'l 0 -0.8c''\ \Z'\h'-0.2c'\D'c 0.4c''\ '\ \Z'\ \v'-7000u-1.3c'\h'+105p'\ \Z'\D'l -0.8c 0''\Z'\D'l 0 +0.4c''\Z'\D'l +0.8c 0''\Z'\D'l 0 -0.4c''\ \Z'\h'-0.2c'\D'c 0.4c''\ '\ \Z'\ \v'-7000u+414p+1.3c'\h'+105p'\ \Z'\D'l -0.8c 0''\Z'\D'l 0 +0.4c''\Z'\D'l +0.8c 0''\Z'\D'l 0 -0.4c''\ \Z'\h'-0.2c'\D'c 0.4c''\ ' -------------------------------------------------------------------- E-Mail: (Ted Harding) <ted.hard...@manchester.ac.uk> Fax-to-email: +44 (0)870 094 0861 Date: 30-Dec-08 Time: 12:19:39 ------------------------------ XFMail ------------------------------
