> There is several lines of whitespace and a page number. I want
> the first line of text to be on the first line of output and
> no page numbers. There are left and right margins. I need
> it to have no margins and a page width of 80 columns when
> generating text output. The PDF version can have margins if
> that is possible. My needs are backwards to most as the text
> version is the one i care most about. There is ansi codes
> in the output. I need the output to be plain ascii text as
> it is being viewed in a game not a xterminal.
Since you're using mm, you have a number of options:
Command-line flags:
Use -r<regname><value> (one-character register names only)
or -r<regname>=<value> (groff extension, arbitrary register
names, use -d to set strings) to set the margins:
O page offset,
W text width,
L page length,
TP custom page header, define as empty for no header.
ANSI codes:
Set environment variable GROFF_NO_SGR to something
and then filter through "col -b".
Altogether:
export GROFF_NO_SGR=yes
nroff -mm -rO0n -rW80n -rL1000v -dTP= file.mm | col -b
Or, alternatively, put this at the top of your file:
.if n \{\
.fp 1 R
.fp 2 R
.fp 3 R
.nr O 0n
.nr W 80n
.nr L 1000v
.de TP
..
.\}
.mso m.tmac
and then simply format with
nroff file.mm
(no -mm necessary because the macros are loaded by the
document itself).
Or, put that stuff in a separate file, say, text.mm,
and format with
nroff text.mm file.mm
so that the same settings in text.mm can be used for
a number of different documents.
