* [9fans] Plan 9 troff paper size solution
@ 2021-01-27 20:57 John A.
2021-02-02 13:09 ` sirjofri
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From: John A. @ 2021-01-27 20:57 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: 9fans
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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* Re: [9fans] Plan 9 troff paper size solution
2021-01-27 20:57 [9fans] Plan 9 troff paper size solution John A.
@ 2021-02-02 13:09 ` sirjofri
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From: sirjofri @ 2021-02-02 13:09 UTC (permalink / raw)
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Quoth John A. <john@ankarstrom.se>:
> 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
(At least on 9front) you can just use ps2pdf ghostscript arguments
instead of step 1. I use:
troff -ms | lp -dstdout | ps2pdf '-sPAPERSIZE=a4' > $target
which works fine. Adjusting pagelength and linelength is still needed as in steps 2 and 3.
sirjofri
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