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formfeeds in [nt]roff (help wanted)

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From: Jaap Bril
Date: Wed, 25 Jan 1989 16:25
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As a DIN A4 piece of paper is not quite 11 inches (but 2681/240 inch)
I started looking for ways and means to give our users a simple but
correct default.
It is of course possible to put a line in the macros, but this would mean
macro updates every time a new A4 printer is defined
and a very strange manual page.

A possible alternative would be to get the .bp call (eject page)
to generate a formfeed instead of a number of newlines.
This would enable me to forget about pages that are shorter than
A4 (for instance the default nroff page).

In the code (yes we are a registered dwb-source site) there is no easily
changable option.
So:
If you have ever done something like the above or have some hints,
Please E-mail .

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*Jaap Bril                                 * jaap@sci.kun.nl                *
*computer&communicatie zaken               * mcvax!kunivv1!jaap             *
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From: jaap@wn2.sci.kun.nl (Jaap Bril)
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Subject: formfeeds in [nt]roff (help wanted)
Keywords: formfeed nroff troff dwb eject-page
Message-ID: <323@wn2.sci.kun.nl>
Date: 25 Jan 89 16:25:03 GMT
Organization: University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands.
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