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Article #1662Re: Documentation on -man macro and changing pagelength in -man
From: Pat Broderick
Date: Thu, 19 Jul 1990 22:03
Date: Thu, 19 Jul 1990 22:03
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In article <3865@kitty.UUCP>, larry@kitty.UUCP (Larry Lippman) writes:
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> I have been writing manual pages in *roff using the -man macro
> ....
> writing and just set .pl manually. Still no joy.
>
I had the same problem a long time ago and solved it by putting a .pl in
the *roff file AFTER the .TH which defines title, etc. From what I
remember I believe .TH arbitrarily set page length to 66. BTW if you
ever find useful documentation I'd like to know.
Patrick T. Broderick |ptb@ittc.wec.com |
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|(412)733-6265 |
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!samsung!uunet!ittc!ptb From: ptb@ittc.wec.com (Pat Broderick) Newsgroups: comp.text,comp.unix.wizards Subject: Re: Documentation on -man macro and changing pagelength in -man Summary: getting page to desired length Keywords: *roff -man macros documentation pagelength Message-ID: <166@ittc.wec.com> Date: 19 Jul 90 22:03:43 GMT References: <3865@kitty.UUCP> Followup-To: comp.text,comp.unix.wizards Organization: Westinghouse Electric Corp., ITTC, Pgh. PA. Lines: 19