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Article #5Re: help changing troff man page macro file
From: Merv Graham
Date: Thu, 29 Oct 1992 01:46
Date: Thu, 29 Oct 1992 01:46
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clarke@mahakala.wpd.sgi.com (David Clarke) writes: >I'm trying to change our troff man page macro file so that the man page >is shifted both vertically and horizontally from its current position >on an 8.5x11 sheet of paper. The horizontal shift turned out to be real >simple, but there doesn't seem to be any correspondingly easy way to >perform the vertical shift. If you have access to the mm macro package you may want to look at the .VM (vertical margin) macro for some ideas. However, I don't know if borrowing from the mm package would violate any copyrights or not. -- Merv Graham | gpstwr!merv@gvgpsa.gvg.tek.com Graham-Patten Systems, Inc. | or: tektronix!gvgpsa.gvg.tek.com!gpstwr!merv P.O. Box 1960 | Grass Valley, CA 95945 | Ph: 916-273-8412 FAX: 916-273-7458
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!charon.amdahl.com!pacbell.com!network.ucsd.edu!ogicse!zephyr.ens.tek.com!gvgpsa!gpstwr!merv From: merv@gpstwr.UUCP (Merv Graham) Newsgroups: comp.text Subject: Re: help changing troff man page macro file Message-ID: <1014@gpstwr.UUCP> Date: 29 Oct 92 01:46:48 GMT Article-I.D.: gpstwr.1014 References: <1992Oct22.222753.9234@odin.corp.sgi.com> Organization: Graham-Patten Sys., Inc., Grass Valley, CA Lines: 18