Am 01.03.2011 12:28, schrieb Ralph Corderoy: > Hi Walter, > > Anton Shepelev wrote: >> 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. > > If you only want to set a very long page length, or an end of input > trap, for `nroff' output and not troff then use a > > .if n ...do nroff-only things... > > There's a matching `t' as well that's only true if we're troff. That > way your PostScript output can be paged, and your terminal output not. >
this looks like a good idea. please can you be more explicit ? I am more a casual groff user and have no idea who to manipulate output device beyond the command line. (NTL: it would be a nice extension for grotty to have a switch like "papersize" ) re, wh
