A question on changing groff's layout

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From: Russ Fellows
Date: Wed, 22 Mar 1995 23:45

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I have a question regarding changing the output for a pipeline of groff 
commands.  The pipeline includes gtroff, gtbl, and grops.  Specifically,
what I am doing is taking the output of a unix command and attempting
to turn in into a nice formatted table.  No problem if I use the default
page layout, assuming 8.5X11 Portrait mode.  However, if I try to 
change the page layout to Landscape, I run into problems.  I can tell
grops to use Landscape mode, but its input was assuming Portrait.

Specifically the pipeline I am using is:

"cat some_file | groff -t -ms | grops > new_file.ps" 

I have looked at recompiling groff, using a different definition of 
the size of PAGE, but after looking at the configure script, it
doesn't appear to use the size definitions throughout groff.

Any suggestions?  (BTW, groff version 1.9).

Sincerly,

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Russ Fellows                          rfellows@intellistor.com

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