on Fri, Dec 14, 2001 at 07:32:20PM +0200, Ian Balchin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi, Brenda says, > > > > After a few pages the printing suddenly slips down the > > > page and is then across the tear line of the continuous > > > stationary that I use. > > > > Not sure what you mean by "suddenly"... it seems > > a problem of this sort should happen gradually unless > > the paper is slipping in the printer. > > On printing the Net-HOWTO we start off fine with pages 1-6 all > aligned correctly then page 7 slips. > > In fact I see what the problem is now that I look more closely > instead of just getting frustrated and angry at it. > > Page 7 has dotted and other lines making up table headers that are > 80ch wide with the last 19 ch or more wrapping to the next line. > This is causing the text to spill over the perforation and move > the page down.
See the -W option to pr, to truncate long lines at a specific column width. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <kmself@ix.netcom.com> http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? Home of the brave http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/ Land of the free We freed Dmitry! Boycott Adobe! Repeal the DMCA! http://www.freesklyarov.org Geek for Hire http://kmself.home.netcom.com/resume.html
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