[Groff] Help with crop marks code

2013-11-28 Thread Walter Alejandro Iglesias
Hello all, Searching for how implement crop marks with groff I've found this: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.printing.groff.general/7804 That do the job but I am a bit lost with the code. I couldn't find documentation on internet to understand it and be able to modify it to fit the A4 pape

Re: [Groff] Help with crop marks code

2013-11-28 Thread Daode
Walter Alejandro Iglesias wrote: |Searching for how implement crop marks with groff I've found this: [.] |I would appreciate some clue or a point to some documentation. Well i have no crop marks but used "fold marks" for letters and when punchers had to be adjusted, but you can paint whatever

Re: [Groff] Help with crop marks code

2013-11-28 Thread Walter Alejandro Iglesias
On Thu, Nov 28, 2013 at 02:46:52PM +0100, Steffen Daode Nurpmeso wrote: > The foldmark painter itself. > All it effectively does is to move absolutely and paint two > horizontal lines at precalculated positions; using different > absolute .sp in combination with several \D''s should do what you > d

Re: [Groff] Help with crop marks code

2013-11-28 Thread Clarke Echols
Here's how I set up crop marks on an 8.5 x 11-inch sheet of paper for 10 business cards. It's simple, works, and is easy to modify for other uses. I use \v and \l to produce the marks. My Thunderbird emailer breaks lines over a certain width, so some lines are continued on the next line (I thin