Re: [groff] a5 paper size?

[Ralph Corderoy]

Hi Richard,

> I’ve done a bit more research, and it looks like gropdf doesn’t
> implement the “\X” command according to the documentation

Please point us to the bit of the documentation you're referring to

> I’m trying to keep things off the command line, because that makes the
> file less self-contained (I would actually like to take the “-Tpdf”
> into the file as well, to tell the truth).

Wrap the file in a shell script and it can contain all the things you
want.  A `here file' fed to sed(1) to `s/^x//' stops the troff source
accidentally containing the `E' ending the here file.

    sed 's/^x//' <<\E
    x1
    xE
    x3
    E

Most people don't want things hard-coded so the user can state local
papersize, e.g. letter v. A4.

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Cheers, Ralph.
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