Re: [Groff] How to move page format definition to command line options

[Damian McGuckin]

On Thu, 1 Oct 2015, Dale Snell wrote:

> On Thu, 01 Oct 2015 00:12:32 -0700, in message
> address@hidden, Marisa Giancarla wrote:
>
> > Right now i have the pages defined at the top of each with ".PGFORM
> > 80 1000 0 1" but i would like to move this to the command line
> > arguments so i can use the same content for 80x24 for plain text
> > version and 8.5x11 for the PDF version. Can someone give me tips on
> > doing this?
>     .ie n <do_something> \" nroff setup
>     .el <do_something_else> \" troff setup
>
> If you need more than one line, you can use \{ and \} to build
> blocks of code; the manual shows how.
>
> Once that's done, you can create your documents with "nroff -mm ..."
> and "troff -mm ...".  Groff will then Do The Right Thing? and
> build your documents the way you want.

Or, you can augment any other arguments on the command by specifying

        groff -rOx.xxc -rWx.xxc -rLx.xxc ..... any other arguments ....

where

        x.xx

is some length in centimtres, hence the c, or for those who are metrically 
challenged, change the 'c' above to 'i' and use inches for any such 'x.xx'
measurements.

There are some subtle differences between the above and PGFORM I believe. 
I am not PGFORM expert.

Regards - Damian

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