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From: "John A." <john@ankarstrom.se>
To: 9fans@9fans.net
Subject: [9fans] Plan 9 troff paper size solution
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 2021 21:57:23 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <rusk3d$4ri$1@ciao.gmane.io> (raw)

Hi everyone,

I've been trying to figure out how to create A4 documents with
Plan 9 troff.  Looking at the source of dpost and the PostScript
output of GNU troff, I found a very easy solution.

1. Call dpost with -P to set the correct page size:

   dpost -P '<< /PageSize [ 595 842 ] /ImagingBBox null >> setpagedevice' 

2. Use .pl to set the page length:

    .pl 29.7c

3. Use .ll (.nr LL with ms) to set the line length:

    .nr LL 15.92c \" assuming PO = 1i

This seems to work properly with ms footers, too.  The last two steps
have been mentioned on the mailing list before, but I think the first
step is new.

Best regards
John


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2021-01-27 20:57 John A. [this message]
2021-02-02 13:09 ` sirjofri

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