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In article <1014@gpstwr.UUCP> merv@gpstwr.UUCP (Merv Graham) writes:
|clarke@mahakala.wpd.sgi.com (David Clarke) writes:
|
|>I'm trying to change our troff man page macro file  so that the man page
|>is shifted both vertically and horizontally from its current position
|>on an 8.5x11 sheet of paper.  The horizontal shift turned out to be real
|>simple, but there doesn't seem to be any correspondingly easy way to 
|>perform the vertical shift.  

|If you have access to the mm macro package you may want to look at the 
|.VM  (vertical margin) macro for some ideas.

|However, I don't know if borrowing from the mm package would violate any
|copyrights or not.

It's not going to help much.  Each macro package has an entirely different
set of variables and procedures for controlling things like this.  Man is
likely hardcoded.  If you copied the VM macro from mm to man, it would
probably do precisely nothing.

Bare troff is really low level language, and the macro packages don't have
a common "model" of how to do things.
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