Re: [Groff] influencing page size on build

[Ted Harding]

On 21-Sep-00 Stewart C. Russell wrote:
> G Hasse wrote:
>> 
>> I patch the /usr/share/groff_font/devps/DESC file and change
>> the value "paperlength 843400"
> 
> This file did not exist on my system. It seems to be trying to parse
> something in /etc, and getting it wrong (not everyone runs DNS). I'd
> like to be able to set the option explicitly, rather than have
> configure go through lots of heuristics and get it wrong.

The usual path is /usr/share/groff/font/devps/DESC and not what
G Hasse wrote. In any case, different groff installs may set up
different paths to the groff tree. The thing to do is to search
for DESC with something like

  find / -name DESC -print | grep groff

(just in case there's a non-groff DESC lurking somewhere). The
DESC file is definitively where the default paperlength setup lurks
(and from which \n[.p] is set).

Ted.

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Date: 21-Sep-00                                       Time: 13:02:17
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