Re: [Groff] groff ms: Is there an order to setting PS and VS versus PO and LL

2015-03-22 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi Larry, > I often include a comment near the top of any *roff file with the > expected command line options, for when I haven't touched it in a week > or more and forgot what I used. I do similar, starting the file .\" f=foo.inv && ./fmtitem $f.tr | groff -t | ps2pdf - $f.pdf .\" exit

Re: [Groff] groff ms: Is there an order to setting PS and VS versus PO and LL

2015-03-22 Thread Larry Kollar
(Ted Harding) wrote: > The ms macros have a somewhat deeply hidden mechanism of > storing the existing values of page-offset, line-length > and the like which can cause the kind of effect that Dorai > observes. > > If I intend a non-default page offset (e.g. 0.75i) to be in > force from the ver