With help from this list a few months ago I got my landscape tables to
print and preview precisely as I wanted. My tables now have enough
entries to require more than one page, but only the first page is
displayed. I've found .TS H and .TH and a requirement for the ms
macros. I can get a multipage boxed table with the file below. That's
fine. It appears, however, that since with ms doesn't handle my request
for a table with 9 inch lines on an 11 inch landscape page. (The
setting of page offset as 1.1i is based upon experimentation with my
printer.)
Here's the essential part of my file:
.ll 9i
.pl 8.5i
.po 1.1i
.sp 0.5i
.ft B
.ce 4
Title line 1
Title line 2
Title line 3
.ft R
.ps -2
.TS H
box, expand, tab(`);
cI cI cI cI cI cI cI.
Donor`Name`Street`City`Contact`Telephone`Email
_
.TH
.T&
n l l l l c l.
100`Allendale Tire Service`123 Miller St.`Allendale, KS`Bill
Allendale`800-555-1325`b...@allendaletire.com
.TE
I added the .pl 8.5i after I started trying to have a multipage boxed
table. Without it, I would have missing entries between the last table
entry on the first page and the first table entry on the second page.
For page preview I'm using
groff -ms -t -P-l donorfile | ps2pdf - donorfile.pdf; evince donorfile.pdf
For printing I'm using
groff -ms -t -P-l donorfile | ps2pdf - donorfile.pdf; lpr donorfile.pdf
