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- From: droege@infko.uni-koblenz.de (Detlev Droege)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
- Subject: Re: Papersize for man -t (ptroff)
- Date: 11 Dec 1992 15:12:13 GMT
- Organization: CC/CS Uni-Koblenz
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- References: <1992Dec7.110448.18834@pilhuhn.ka.sub.org>
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- In article <1992Dec7.110448.18834@pilhuhn.ka.sub.org> jr@sade.ka.sub.org
- (Jochen Richter) writes:
- > Hi,
- >
- > I use A4 as my global papersize.
- > Whenever I print a manpage using man -t or the ptroff command the pages do
- > not print properly. When I set the papersize to LETTER it works. In case I
- > do not want to switch the papersize all the time there are 2 questions:
- >
- > 1. For which application can I set the papersize default that ptroff uses
- > this one instead of the global one?
-
- Ptroff is a shell script which calls pscat. Pscat is the weird program.
- It reads the defaults database, but apparently does so for the globals
- only. It seems not to know "private" defaults, at least I didn't find them.
-
- > 2. What default can I set to format the manpages in A4 and then print it
- > in A4?
-
- Call ptroff with the additional option "-l 11in". This is given through
- to pscat and overrides the defaults. I use
- ptroff -man -t -l 11in xxx.1 | lpr
- for man pages. This works fine even if you did a "dwrite -g NXPaperType A4".
-
- Detlev
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