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Re: Ugliness from -me / -ms

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From: dougs
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1987 19:50
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In article <8704102103.AA25785@brillig.umd.edu>, aburt%isis.UUX@ncar.CSNET (Andrew Burt) writes:
> 
> 1) How does one go about removing the ridiculous small lines that troff produces
> at the top of each page (upper right corner) when using -me and -ms?

I believe these are referred to as "cut marks".

Try .rm CM at the top of your file (of course, it's possible that the
cutmark was defined in a string/macro other than CM, so you might have
to grope around in tmac.e/tmac.s).

Doug Schwartz
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Subject: Re: Ugliness from -me / -ms
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Summary: Removing cutmarks