Re: Getting rid of cut marks in troff

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From: Henry Spencer
Date: Wed, 14 Jan 1987 21:46

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> > Cut marks, if any, should be generated not by the input macros,
> > nor by the formatter, but by the post processor.
> 
> Which would probably make it a royal pain for the user to modify cutmarks
> for smaller pages (e.g., five by nine inch pages)...

No, you misunderstand the relationship between ditroff and postprocessor.
Ditroff *tells* the postprocessor where the page boundaries are -- the
postprocessor doesn't have to guess.
-- 
				Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
				{allegra,ihnp4,decvax,pyramid}!utzoo!henry

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