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Re: [Groff] Groff command-line argument strangeness
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Keith Marshall |
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Re: [Groff] Groff command-line argument strangeness |
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Mon, 26 Oct 2015 06:10:13 +0000 |
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On 26/10/15 05:44, Koz Ross wrote:
> Thanks Keith - good to know I'm already finding bugs. :P
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> What does the '-P-pa4' do here? I assume it's to do with paper sizing?
Yes. It's to ensure that both troff and its grops postprocessor agree
on paper size; I've sometimes found that, after -dpaper=a4, grops still
thinks the paper size is letter, even though troff has formatted for A4.
Re: [Groff] Groff command-line argument strangeness, Deri James, 2015/10/26