Re: [Groff] eliminating header and footer in nroff

[Werner LEMBERG]

> I am coding the 'man' command. So, far I have everything working
> with the page length as the default page length (80). so, in my
> troff output I dont have the
> 
> .pl1100
> 
> line. I have eliminated that.
> 
> But since troff is a printer package, it inserts formfeed due to the
> Page header and Footer.  Hence, I have a few extra lines and the
> formfeed characters at the join of two pages.

You should really look at the groff's implementation of the man macros
(in `an-old.tmac') to see how such things can be circumvented.  GNU
troff's TTY device driver (grotty) never inserts formfeed characters
if you don't use the -f command line option.


    Werner