From: Joel “chesky†Salomon <JoelCSalomon@Gmail.com>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: [9fans] pages in nroff
Date: Sun, 8 Oct 2006 20:37:44 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <a48d75f1ffdb414854dd7ce519944074@plan9.jp> (raw)
I’ve been wondering; do the page boundaries in nroff serve any real purpose anymore? Probably 95% or more of the time, nroff is invoked by man for display in acme or a terminal and the page headers don’t match anything on the screen anyway. Would it break the ?roff model to set a page length of “indefinite” so it displays only one header at the beginning and one footer at the end? Where would I look if I wanted such customization?
--Joel
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Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-10-09 0:37 Joel “chesky” Salomon [this message]
2006-10-10 2:36 ` Scott Schwartz
2006-10-12 17:40 ` Joel Salomon
2006-10-12 17:51 ` Russ Cox
2006-10-12 17:58 ` Joel Salomon
2006-10-12 18:01 ` Joel Salomon
2006-10-12 18:11 ` Joel “chesky” Salomon
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