Need nroff macros for 130 col by 88 line man macro pages.

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From: Terry Orlowski
Date: Thu, 16 Jun 1988 03:03

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I want to produce man pages for a printer which when in "compressed mode" will
give me 88 lines/page & 130 columns/line.  I am trying to get the "most" text
on a page. I hackingly modified the man macros (tmac.an) on our Microvax II
running ULTRIX. Modification of the page number and command name to print on thesame line worked, as well as decreasing the size of the header and trailer on 
each page. Problem is that the page size "varies" (lines/page is not 88 on all
pages) anywhere from +5 lines to -5 lines per page.

Any suggestions (other than learning nroff a TAD better); I was hoping for a
set of macros in which a single change to line length & page length would be
all that was needed.

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Subject: Need nroff macros for 130 col by 88 line man macro pages.
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