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| author | wl <wl> | 2005-02-01 08:13:29 +0000 |
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| committer | wl <wl> | 2005-02-01 08:13:29 +0000 |
| commit | 4e0b485b8d67361ec634e70709a8b634cb0c3e6b (patch) | |
| tree | 11d2aa9fc7a4d5e0f7f727ef20b54fb0430c0635 | |
| parent | 41b69f263fc2c8962c5d09ca09c4917afefb8911 (diff) | |
| download | groff-4e0b485b8d67361ec634e70709a8b634cb0c3e6b.tar.gz | |
* src/roff/groff/groff.man: Add information about paper size.
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| -rw-r--r-- | src/roff/groff/groff.man | 48 |
2 files changed, 50 insertions, 4 deletions
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@ +2004-02-01 Werner LEMBERG <wl@gnu.org> + + * src/roff/groff/groff.man: Add information about paper size. + 2005-01-25 Werner LEMBERG <wl@gnu.org> * src/roff/nroff/nroff.sh: Handle `*.ISO8859-1' in locale. From @@ -50,7 +54,7 @@ 2004-12-16 Mike Bianchi <mbianchi@Foveal.com> - * configure.ac: Produce `contrib/gdiffml/tests/runtests'. + * configure.ac: Produce `contrib/gdiffmk/tests/runtests'. * configure: Updated. 2004-12-15 Thomas Klausner <wiz@netbsd.org> diff --git a/src/roff/groff/groff.man b/src/roff/groff/groff.man index 627113b3..e6621480 100644 --- a/src/roff/groff/groff.man +++ b/src/roff/groff/groff.man @@ -1,9 +1,9 @@ .ig groff.man -Last update: 27 Jul 2004 +Last update: 01 Feb 2005 -Copyright (C) 1989, 2002, 2003, 2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc. +Copyright (C) 1989, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005 Free Software Foundation, Inc. Rewritten in 2002 by Bernd Warken <bwarken@mayn.de> Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document @@ -780,6 +780,48 @@ the groff system. . . .\" -------------------------------------------------------------------- +.SS Paper Size +.\" -------------------------------------------------------------------- +. +The +.I virtual +paper size used by +.B troff +to format the input is controlled globally with the requests +.BR .po , +.BR .pl , +and +.BR .ll . +See +.BR groff_tmac (@MAN5EXT@) +for the `papersize' macro package which provides a convenient interface. +. +.P +The +.I physical +paper size, giving the actual dimensions of the paper sheets, is +controlled by output devices like +.BR grops +with the command line options +.B \-p +and +.BR \-l . +See +.BR groff_font (@MAN5EXT@) +and the man pages of the output devices for more details. +.B groff +uses the command line option +.B \-P +to pass options to output devices; for example, the following selects +A4 paper in landscape orientation for the PS device: +. +.RS +.P +groff -Tps -P-pa4 -P-l .\|.\|. +.RE +. +. +.\" -------------------------------------------------------------------- .SS Front-ends .\" -------------------------------------------------------------------- . @@ -1525,7 +1567,7 @@ This is the only grap version supported by groff. .SH AUTHORS .\" -------------------------------------------------------------------- . -Copyright \(co 1989, 2002, 2003, 2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc. +Copyright \(co 1989, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005 Free Software Foundation, Inc. . .P This document is distributed under the terms of the FDL (GNU Free |