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Re: [groff] Printing landscape with mm


From: Blake McBride
Subject: Re: [groff] Printing landscape with mm
Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2018 11:51:37 -0500

Thanks, Ralph!!

On Tue, Jul 24, 2018 at 10:56 AM Ralph Corderoy <address@hidden>
wrote:

> Hi Blake,
>
> > at the beginning of my document I am doing:
> >
> > .pl 8.5i
>
> groff_mm(7) talks of `.PGFORM'.
>
>     printf '%s\n' '.PGFORM 9i 8.5i 1i' ".PF 'left'centre'right'" `seq
> 3000` |
>     groff -mm -Tpdf -P-l -P-pletter >foo.pdf
>
> You'll see page one's header is centred on the old page width compared
> with pages two and three.
>
> Using registers set on the command-line, before the `-mm' has effect,
> avoids this problem, as hinted at in groff_mm(7).
>
>     printf '%s\n' ".PF 'left'centre'right'" `seq 3000` |
>     groff -mm -Tpdf -rL=8.5i -rO=1i -rW=9i -P-l -P-pletter >bar.pdf
>
> --
> Cheers, Ralph.
> https://plus.google.com/+RalphCorderoy
>
>


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