On Fri, 2 Apr 2010, Tadziu Hoffmann wrote:
If I set .pl 15i the resulting document is 11i long and the
bottom of my document is cut off How else should I define a
custom length Using groff-1.18.1
$ cat long_page_test
.pl 15i
this is the top
.sp |14.5i
this is the bottom
$ groff long_page_test > long_page_test.ps
If I change .sp |14.5i -> .sp |10.5i the text "this is the
bottom" prints at the bottom of the page
With ".pl 15i" you just tell troff to format the text for
a page this long. To actually use paper of that size, you
must also tell grops (the device postprocessor) to request
the printer to switch to paper of that size:
bash$ groff -P-p15i,8i long_page_test >long_page_test.ps
Don't y'all just love dealing with beginners
I had figured out that I had to pass a page size to grops but I had it
stuck in my head that it had to be a defined size, letter, legal, a2, ...
Is this not documented or did I just overlook it
Richard
