Back a long time ago when I used to know roff in general, and groff in particular, really well (at Data General I wrote a lot of docs using groff, and talked to James a good bit about it), I took the tmac.an macros and modified them to decrease the margin on the man pages displayed on the TTY.
It is _SO_ annoying to lose at least 10 characters of perfectly good space on the right of every single line, to a quite useless right hand margin. Unfortunately, that knowledge has passed out of my ever-shrinking set of useful brain cells. I see that there's an /etc/groff/man.local file which is loaded after the normal tmac.an (or tmac.an-old or however that works--looks confusing). That seems promising. However, I've completely forgotten what magic incantation I need to put there to change the right-hand margin from 1 inch or whatever it currently is to something more reasonable... Hints, anyone? -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Paul D. Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> HASMAT--HA Software Methods & Tools "Please remain calm...I may be mad, but I am a professional." --Mad Scientist ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- These are my opinions---Nortel Networks takes no responsibility for them.
