Re: [Groff] Trouble switching to groff, macro gives syntax error...

[Damian McGuckin]

On Tue, 15 Sep 2015, Marisa Giancarla wrote:

> Ok, trying that gave me an improvement but i still have these issues:

> There is several lines of whitespace and a page number. I want the first 
> line of text to be on the first line of output and no page numbers.

I have never used 'groff' for such things. I am guessing it is either not 
the right tool, or will need to be postprocessed.

> There are left and right margins. I need it to have no margins and a 
> page width of 80 columns when generating text output.

Writing a postprocessor to strip out initial text, unprintable ASCII 
codes, and trimming the margins should be straightforward.

> The PDF version can have margins if that is possible. My needs are 
> backwards to most as the text version is the one i care most about.

We all have different needs.

> There is ansi codes in the output. I need the output to be plain ascii 
> text as it is being viewed in a game not a xterminal.

See my comment above.

Regards - Damian

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