Am 02.03.2011 11:38, schrieb Werner LEMBERG:
> 
>> A switch that let grotty ignore a given page size inside a document.
> 
> .rn pl pl-orig
> .de pl
> .  pl-orig 9999i
> ..
> 
>> And the rationale is exactly what you said: paper sizes and screen
>> sizes do not mix properly; so it may be useful to ignore a length
>> and leave the "page break" to a pager.
> 
> Exactly.  For man pages this is done like this by default.
> 
> 
>     Werner
> 

i have added .pl 9999i and it works so far but now i see
^h^h^h^h in front of my table. I can fix that with "cut -b5-"
or  tr -d "\b" but i am confused.
(i did not notice it before since i used | more to show the
output but xmessage is something different).

is this intended ?

re,
 wh


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