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Article #1164Re: Can you make ditroff print in landscape orientation on an Apple laserwriter?
From: Ross Parker
Date: Thu, 16 Nov 1989 18:47
Date: Thu, 16 Nov 1989 18:47
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In article <621@alias.UUCP>, mherman@alias.UUCP (Michael Herman) writes: > The tools are have at hand are: > - ditroff, tbl and -ms > - Adobe Transcript > - an Apple LaserWriter Plus > > The ideal solution would be something like: > - set *these* troff registers to *these* values > - set *these* -ms registers to *these* values > - use *these* options when you run *these* Transcript programs > > ... but I am interested in hearing about any solution that might work. If you're using Transcript version 2.1 (I think this will work for earlier versions also), simply add a '-r' flag onto the 'psdit' command line. You'll need to set up the page length and page width within your document to suit (and tbl still has a hard-coded limit, I believe). Here's a sample command line: tbl file | /usr/lib/ditroff -ms -Tpsc -i | /usr/local/transcript/psdit -r | lpr -Pps Hope this helps... Ross Parker | Why do they put me down? Microtel Pacific Research Ltd. | Make out that I'm a clown? Burnaby, B.C., | I drink scotch whisky all Canada, eh? uunet!ubc-cs!mpre!parker | day long (604)293-5495 parker@mpre.mpr.ca | Yeah I'm gonna save my money Disclaimer: | (gonna put it all away...) My fingers are doing all the work... | 'Cause I'm a Scotsman
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!sobmips!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!rice!uw-beaver!ubc-cs!eric!zaphod.Berkeley.EDU!parker From: parker@zaphod.Berkeley.EDU (Ross Parker) Newsgroups: comp.text,comp.lang.postscript,comp.unix.wizards Subject: Re: Can you make ditroff print in landscape orientation on an Apple laserwriter? Message-ID: <1900@eric.mpr.ca> Date: 16 Nov 89 18:47:24 GMT References: <621@alias.UUCP> Sender: news@eric.mpr.ca Reply-To: parker@zaphod.Berkeley.EDU (Ross Parker) Lines: 32