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Re: [Groff] groff postscript output rotated 90 degrees in for a 4 x 2.5
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Ralph Corderoy |
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Re: [Groff] groff postscript output rotated 90 degrees in for a 4 x 2.5 inch label? |
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Mon, 09 Jun 2014 11:15:50 +0100 |
Hi Mike,
Ted wrote:
> It is, however, possible to rotate parts of a page (keeping the pager
> as a whole unrotated) if you are using PostScript output.
Inspired by Werner's
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/groff/2003-05/msg00042.html, I came up
with
$ cat mike.tr
.pl 4.0i
.ll 2.5i
.po 0
.nf
.
\X'ps: exec -90 rotate -\n(.p u 0 u translate'
.sp -1 \" Undo vertical effect of \X.
10 Downing St
London
SW1A 2AA
$
$ groff -P -p4i,2.5i mike.tr >mike.ps
No need for external psutils?
Cheers, Ralph.