Walter Harms: > thx for the hint, but how does setting the page > lenght affect the printed output ? the main point > is to print the document, showing it is only sec- > ond.
It depends on what you call printed output. If you mean the output of one of groff's character-cell devices (-Tascii, -Tlatin1,...) then yes. I don't know whether it is possible, but xmessage should be told to use a fixed-width font and keep all spaces and line breaks. Anton