Re: [Groff] Converting basic units to inches in PostScript

[Carsten Kunze]

John Gardner <address@hidden> wrote:

> I'm using the dl register to set page indent with .in, which works fine in
> nroff, but generates absurdly large sizes in groff. For instance, a
> diversion with a width of 624 in TTY output becomes 286946 in PostScript.

If you use .in with a register value you have to set the unit to u, e.g.:

.in \n(dlu

else the default unit of .in is multiplied with the dl register value.

Can you post a code example, how you apply the dl contents to .in?