On 6 December 2011 16:17, Werner LEMBERG wrote: >>>> Now how do I adjust the line length within the .tl? djusting the >>>> page offset seemsto work, but .ll has no effect. Any suggestions? >> >> Yes, I know. I am absolutely new to troff and have been trying to do >> just that -- poring over the manual pages, the O'Reilly book"Unix >> Text Processing", etc. Sometimes the macro names, etc. that I need >> are less than obvious, at least to me. I had been searching for >> anything having to do with "header" or "footer" and missed that >> "title" might be the ticket. > > If you can suggest improvements in groff.texinfo, please do so!
The OP had already been pointed to .tl as as a suitable request for setting his header and footer text. The texinfo manual describes the .lt request *immediately* below the description of .tl itself. However, it might be worthwhile adding a forward reference from .tl to .lt, to point out that it is the latter, rather than .ll, which controls the line length when setting text with .tl; wording something like: Note that line length set by the .ll request is not honoured by .tl; use the .lt request (described below) instead, to control line length for text set by .tl should suffice. -- Regards, Keith.
