Re: tbl, troff, ptroff & Co.

Article View: comp.sys.next.software

Article #1488

Back to comp.sys.next.software Previous Next

#1488

From: Bjorn S. Fjeld Pettersen
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 23:38

35 lines
1791 bytes

In article <1992Dec29.214748.5774@ifi.unizh.ch> kluge@avalon.physik.unizh.ch  
(kluge daniel) writes:

[stuff deleted...]

> After that, I moved some ManPages through ptroff, and tryed, to reformat
> them from Letter to A4, without success,
> Neither
> 	ptroff -t -l 297mm
> nor
> 	ptroff -t -s A4
> did something useable, both produced the same, it looked like an A4 page
> seen through a Frame of Letter-Size: the top of The Page had been cut,
> and the next page already showed up at the bottom.

I have tried using ptroff on a troff file also, with the same result: It always  
starts printing well above what is visible on tha page. Anyone have a fix for  
this?

[more stuff deleted...]

> - daniel
> --
> Daniel G. Kluge @ Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zuerich
> E-Mail              : kluge@avalon.physik.unizh.ch (NeXT-Mail welcome)
> study-related stuff : dankluge@iiic.ethz.ch
> DECnet              : EZINFO::CLUESCH

Bjorn

------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Bjorn S. Fjeld Pettersen
bjorn@doek.uoregon.edu                       NextMail Welcomed
#include <std-disclaimer.h>
------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Technical Details

Message-ID: <1htbu5INN76m@pith.uoregon.edu>

Path:

arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uwm.edu!ogicse!cs.uoregon.edu!news.uoregon.edu!news.uoregon.edu!systems

References: <1992Dec29.214748.5774@ifi.unizh.ch>

Show Full Headers

Complete Article Headers

Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uwm.edu!ogicse!cs.uoregon.edu!news.uoregon.edu!news.uoregon.edu!systems
From: bjorn@darmok.uoregon.edu (Bjorn S. Fjeld Pettersen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software
Subject: Re: tbl, troff, ptroff & Co.
Message-ID: <1htbu5INN76m@pith.uoregon.edu>
Date: 30 Dec 92 23:38:45 GMT
Article-I.D.: pith.1htbu5INN76m
References: <1992Dec29.214748.5774@ifi.unizh.ch>
Organization: University of Oregon Network Services
Lines: 35
NNTP-Posting-Host: cisco-ts2-line65.uoregon.edu

Reply to Parent Message