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Article #152Problems with troff output on a SUN Laserwriter
From: John R. Nicol
Date: Thu, 18 Sep 1986 10:08
Date: Thu, 18 Sep 1986 10:08
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I've prepared my Ph.D. thesis using troff and its me macro package. However, I've run into problems in printing the formatted document on the SUN laser-writer. I need a 1.5 inch left margin. But.... when I set the page offset (.po) to 1.5i, troff goes bananas complaining that: "Page offset + Line Length exceeds the width of the paper" The resulting laser-written output is garbled too. Strange thing is the above message is garbage: my line length (.ll) is 5.75i and I'm using standard British A4 size paper. Apparently SUN know that troffing stuff with me intended for output on their laser-writer is bug prone. This is no comfort to me! Has any bright spark worked out a convenient way to get round this problem? Serious suggestions are most welcome. John "I'm desparate, Dan" (from "The Boys from the Black Stuff") -- Segmentation fault (core dumped)... ------ EMAIL: john@comp.lancs.ac.uk <---> | Post: University of Lancaster, UUCP: ...!mcvax!ukc!dcl-cs!john <-| | Department of Computing, Phone: +44 524 65201 Ext. 4146 <-| | Bailrigg, Lancaster, UK. Reply to: John R. Nicol by ________| | LA1 4YR Project: COSMOS Distributed Operating Systems Research
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Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!mnetor!seismo!lll-crg!lll-lcc!qantel!hplabs!pyramid!ucat!pesnta!amd!amdcad!amdimage!prls!philabs!prlb2!mcvax!ukc!dcl-cs!john From: john@comp.lancs.ac.uk (John R. Nicol) Newsgroups: net.research,net.unix Subject: Problems with troff output on a SUN Laserwriter Message-ID: <430@comp.lancs.ac.uk> Date: Thu, 18-Sep-86 06:08:00 EDT Article-I.D.: comp.430 Posted: Thu Sep 18 06:08:00 1986 Date-Received: Sun, 21-Sep-86 22:06:22 EDT Reply-To: john@comp.lancs.ac.uk (John R. Nicol) Organization: Department of Computing at Lancaster University, UK. Lines: 27