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Re: [Groff] groff postscript output rotated 90 degrees in for a 4 x 2.5


From: Ted Harding
Subject: Re: [Groff] groff postscript output rotated 90 degrees in for a 4 x 2.5 inch label?
Date: Mon, 09 Jun 2014 12:31:37 +0100 (BST)

On 09-Jun-2014 10:15:50 Ralph Corderoy wrote:
> Hi Mike,
> 
> Ted wrote:
>> It is, however, possible to rotate parts of a page (keeping the pager
>> as a whole unrotated) if you are using PostScript output.
> 
> Inspired by Werner's
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/groff/2003-05/msg00042.html, I came up
> with
> 
>     $ cat mike.tr
>     .pl 4.0i
>     .ll 2.5i
>     .po 0
>     .nf
>     .
>     \X'ps: exec -90 rotate -\n(.p u 0 u translate'
>     .sp -1   \" Undo vertical effect of \X.
>     10 Downing St
>     London
>     SW1A 2AA
>     $ 
>     $ groff -P -p4i,2.5i mike.tr >mike.ps
> 
> No need for external psutils?
> 
> Cheers, Ralph.

Which just goes to sow what you can do with groff!
Ted.

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