Re: [Groff] setting a custom page length

[Richard Ray]

On Thu, 1 Apr 2010, Ralph Corderoy wrote:

> Hi Richard,
>
> > If I set .pl 15i the resulting document is 11i long and the bottom of
> > my document is cut off How else should I define a custom length Using
> > groff-1.18.1
>
> Can you provide some extra detail?  Are you using a macro set, e.g. -ms?
> Is there a small example input that shows the problem?
>
> Cheers,
> Ralph.

No macros

$ cat long_page_test
.pl 15i
this is the top
.sp |14.5i
this is the bottom

$ groff long_page_test > long_page_test.ps

If I change .sp |14.5i -> .sp |10.5i the text "this is the bottom" prints 
at the bottom of the page

Richard