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
> (NTL: it would be a nice extension for grotty to have a switch like
> "papersize" )
Uh, oh, a TTY has no length by its very definition. A physical paper
size is completely meaningless for terminals, and the logical paper
size is given by gtroff anyways (with the `pl' request).
Werner
Am 02.03.2011 10:53, schrieb Werner LEMBERG:
>> (NTL: it would be a nice extension for grotty to have a switch like
>> "papersize" )
>
> Uh, oh, a TTY has no length by its very definition. A physical paper
> size is completely meaningless for terminals, and the logical paper
> size is given by
> A switch that let grotty ignore a given page size inside a document.
.rn pl pl-orig
.de pl
. pl-orig i
..
> 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.
Exac
Werner Lemberg:
> > And the rationale is exactly what you said:
> > paper sizes and screen sizes do not mix prop-
> > erly; 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.
And exactly in
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 i
> ..
>
>> And the rationale is exactly what you said: paper sizes and screen
>> sizes do not mix properly; so it may be useful t
Walter Harms
> i have added .pl i 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 con-
> fused.
> (i did not notice it before since i used | more to
> show the output but xmessage is something differ-
> ent).
Lo
Am 02.03.2011 17:32, schrieb Anton Shepelev:
> Walter Harms
>
>> i have added .pl i 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 con-
>> fused.
>> (i did not notice it before since i used | more to
>> show
Walter Harms
> does not work for me, the ^h are still produced
Hmmm. I'll have too look at your nroff code to
understand why.
Anton
