On Wed, 26 May 2021 21:01:33 +0200 Oliver Corff <oliver.co...@email.de> wrote:
> Of course, I can typeset the table separately and assemble the pdf > pages by hand, but a solution totally controlled from within the > groff file would be great. Not an answer, but in ancient times, your output would have gone a printer, which might have had different paper in different trays. It woudn't be unusual to use legal-size paper in landscape mode for tables with 30 or more columns, with no opportunity to use pstricks. I've often wished for a groff cookbook of odd tricks, such as how to print envelopes. A quick glance at Adobe's Postcript reference manual turns up "setpagedevice", which looks to be its ioctl: it seems to be a set of device-specific name-value pairs for doing things like selecting paper trays and telling the printer to stop while the envelope is inserted. No problem for groff; that's what \X'ps: exec code' is for. Sadly, in 2021, I have no idea where to obtain the Postscript device-specific features for any printer, or whether such information is even published anymore.
