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- From: kluge@avalon.physik.unizh.ch (kluge daniel)
- Subject: tbl, troff, ptroff & Co.
- Message-ID: <1992Dec29.214748.5774@ifi.unizh.ch>
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- Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 21:47:48 GMT
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- I just played around with ptroff, for having a Man Page, which is
- suitable for printing.
- My First problem was the following:
- When I run a man-page through tbl, it exited with 'bus error'.
- After playing a little bit with the File, I found the solution, the
- NeXT-tbl doesn't accept things like this:
- l l
- - -
- l l
- First_Title Second_Title
- fist second
-
- although the following just produced some funny output, and an error:
- l l
- -
- l l
- ( Input: line xx: Data ignored on table line 2
- ( First_Title Second_Title
- ( ___________ second
-
- Ok, ok i know, if you Place an undersocre in the line preeceding 'first'
- you will get it, BUT I don't like it, to edit every 100k man-page that
- comes from the net, so I'd appreciate, if 'tbl' would work as intended.
-
- After that, I moved some ManPages through ptroff, and tryed, to reformat
- them from Letter to A4, without success,
- Neither
- ptroff -t -l 297mm
- nor
- ptroff -t -s A4
- did something useable, both produced the same, it looked like an A4 page
- seen through a Frame of Letter-Size: the top of The Page had been cut,
- and the next page already showed up at the bottom.
- To make things worse, if you want to reformat it with 'psnup', it won't
- come out of 'psnup' as A4 as well, so, the Pages get gut on the end,
- because someone thinks, that the Page is some .5in shorter than it
- acutally is.
-
- I'd appreciate any suggestions, comments to those problems (tbl & ptroff
- with non-Letter formating)
-
- - daniel
- --
- Daniel G. Kluge @ Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zuerich
- E-Mail : kluge@avalon.physik.unizh.ch (NeXT-Mail welcome)
- study-related stuff : dankluge@iiic.ethz.ch
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