Re: Generating AdressLabels - Remain on 1 line the adressline

[Denis M. Wilson]

Hello all,

I have a module for address labels, look in

http://www.oxytropis.plus.com/groff/markup-1.0.7a.tar.gz

It attempts to adjust the typesetting to centre the text within
the label. There is provision for different makes of label and different
printers and how near the edge they print.
Hope this is of interest.

Denis

 On Tue, 22 Dec 2020 16:20:01
+0100 Wim Stockman <wim.stockman@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Groffers,
> 
> I have a question.
> I'm doing some address printing. For the moment I use enscript in a
> bashscript for this.
> With enscript I can detect when I have a input line that doesn't fit
> on 1 line of the label. Enscript has a flag that it creates a second
> page on overflow to put the rest of the input line on.
> With this function I can detect if I still have 1 page in my
> postscript file. If it doesn't I adjust the font size. So to fit the
> addressline on 1 page.
> Is this something that could also be achieved with groff.
> Because that would mean I got a lot more flexibility for the layout
> of the labels than with enscript.
> But it is important that the lines from the ascii input file matches
> the same amount of output lines.
> 
> Any ideas ?
> 
> Kind regards
> Wim Stockman


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