Re: [Groff] how to change the number of columns for utf8 device

[Ralph Corderoy]

Hi zhangweiwu,

> Ralph Corderoy wrote:
> > As for the length of each column line, I'd have thought setting the
> > line length through the \n(LL register may be the easiest way.
> >
> >     (echo .nr LL 10i; echo .2C; yes '' | awk '{print NR} NR == 1000 
> > {exit}') |
> >     groff -Tutf8 -ms
>   
> Thanks a lot for the 2-column page layout answer! That helps a lot.
> The tougher issue is how to set content width on utf8 device. I tried
> LL register doesn't work on utf8 device.

You should find changing the 10i in the pipeline you've quoted above to
4i has an effect;  and that's using -Tutf8.  Here's another example,
setting LL on the command line instead of groff's input.

    for f in 3 4 5 6 7 8; do
        yes $f | sed 50q | groff -Tutf8 -rLL=${f}i -ms | grep .
    done

Again, this is using utf8.  If you can't re-produce these then we need
more detail, e.g. the command and its input, reduced to a simple case.

Cheers,


Ralph.