On Thu, 01 Oct 2015 00:12:32 -0700, in message dee5c46f-d4b7-4426-8068-571e2eb09...@me.com, Marisa Giancarla wrote:
> Right now i have the pages defined at the top of each with ".PGFORM
> 80 1000 0 1" but i would like to move this to the command line
> arguments so i can use the same content for 80x24 for plain text
> version and 8.5x11 for the PDF version. Can someone give me tips on
> doing this?
>
> Thanks!
>
> Marisa
I think you'll need to do some in-document modifications first.
See sections 5.20.1 and 5.20.2 in the Groff manual. You can use
the .ie and .el requests to set up the different settings you need
for nroff (terminal output) and troff (PDF output). E.g.,
.ie n <do_something> \" nroff setup
.el <do_something_else> \" troff setup
If you need more than one line, you can use \{ and \} to build
blocks of code; the manual shows how.
Once that's done, you can create your documents with "nroff -mm ..."
and "troff -mm ...". Groff will then Do The Right Thing™ and
build your documents the way you want.
Hope this helps.
--Dale
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