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diff --git a/doc/groff.html.node/Paper-Format.html b/doc/groff.html.node/Paper-Format.html new file mode 100644 index 0000000..f6f9e72 --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/groff.html.node/Paper-Format.html @@ -0,0 +1,101 @@ +<!DOCTYPE html> +<html> +<!-- Created by GNU Texinfo 7.0.3, https://www.gnu.org/software/texinfo/ --> +<head> +<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> +<!-- This manual documents GNU troff version 1.23.0. + +Copyright © 1994-2023 Free Software Foundation, Inc. + +Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document +under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.3 or +any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no +Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A +copy of the license is included in the section entitled "GNU Free +Documentation License". --> +<title>Paper Format (The GNU Troff Manual)</title> + +<meta name="description" content="Paper Format (The GNU Troff Manual)"> +<meta name="keywords" content="Paper Format (The GNU Troff Manual)"> +<meta name="resource-type" content="document"> +<meta name="distribution" content="global"> +<meta name="Generator" content="makeinfo"> +<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width,initial-scale=1"> + +<link href="index.html" rel="start" title="Top"> +<link href="Request-Index.html" rel="index" title="Request Index"> +<link href="index.html#SEC_Contents" rel="contents" title="Table of Contents"> +<link href="Invoking-groff.html" rel="up" title="Invoking groff"> +<link href="Invocation-Examples.html" rel="next" title="Invocation Examples"> +<link href="Font-Directories.html" rel="prev" title="Font Directories"> +<style type="text/css"> +<!-- +div.example {margin-left: 3.2em} +span.r {font-family: initial; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal} +--> +</style> + + +</head> + +<body lang="en"> +<div class="section-level-extent" id="Paper-Format"> +<div class="nav-panel"> +<p> +Next: <a href="Invocation-Examples.html" accesskey="n" rel="next">Invocation Examples</a>, Previous: <a href="Font-Directories.html" accesskey="p" rel="prev">Font Directories</a>, Up: <a href="Invoking-groff.html" accesskey="u" rel="up">Invoking <code class="code">groff</code></a> [<a href="index.html#SEC_Contents" title="Table of contents" rel="contents">Contents</a>][<a href="Request-Index.html" title="Index" rel="index">Index</a>]</p> +</div> +<hr> +<h3 class="section" id="Paper-Format-1">2.5 Paper Format</h3> +<a class="index-entry-id" id="index-paper-format"></a> +<a class="index-entry-id" id="index-format_002c-paper"></a> +<a class="index-entry-id" id="index-paper-size"></a> +<a class="index-entry-id" id="index-size_002c-paper"></a> +<a class="index-entry-id" id="index-landscape-page-orientation"></a> +<a class="index-entry-id" id="index-orientation_002c-landscape"></a> +<a class="index-entry-id" id="index-page-orientation_002c-landscape"></a> + +<p>In <code class="code">groff</code>, the page dimensions for the formatter GNU <code class="code">troff</code> +and for output devices are handled separately. See <a class="xref" href="Page-Layout.html">Page Layout</a>, for +vertical manipulation of the page size, and See <a class="xref" href="Line-Layout.html">Line Layout</a>, for +horizontal changes. +<a class="index-entry-id" id="index-papersize_002etmac"></a> +<a class="index-entry-id" id="index-troffrc-1"></a> +The <samp class="file">papersize</samp> macro package, normally loaded by <samp class="file">troffrc</samp> at +startup, provides an interface for configuring page dimensions by +convenient names, like ‘<samp class="samp">letter</samp>’ or ‘<samp class="samp">a4</samp>’; see +<cite class="cite">groff_tmac<span class="r">(5)</span></cite>. The default used by the formatter depends on +its build configuration, but is usually one of the foregoing, as +geographically appropriate. +</p> +<p>It is up to each macro package to respect the page dimensions configured +in this way. +</p> +<p>For each output device, the size of the output medium can be set in its +<samp class="file">DESC</samp> file. Most output drivers also recognize a command-line +option <samp class="option">-p</samp> to override the default dimensions and an option +<samp class="option">-l</samp> to use landscape orientation. See <a class="xref" href="DESC-File-Format.html"><samp class="file">DESC</samp> File Format</a>, for +a description of the <code class="code">papersize</code> keyword, which takes an argument +of the same form as <samp class="option">-p</samp>. The output driver’s man page, such as +<cite class="cite">grops<span class="r">(1)</span></cite>, may also be helpful. +</p> +<p><code class="code">groff</code> uses the command-line option <samp class="option">-P</samp> to pass options to +postprocessors; for example, use the following for PostScript output on +A4 paper in landscape orientation. +</p> +<div class="example"> +<div class="group"><pre class="example-preformatted">groff -Tps -dpaper=a4l -P-pa4 -P-l -ms foo.ms > foo.ps +</pre></div></div> + + + +</div> +<hr> +<div class="nav-panel"> +<p> +Next: <a href="Invocation-Examples.html">Invocation Examples</a>, Previous: <a href="Font-Directories.html">Font Directories</a>, Up: <a href="Invoking-groff.html">Invoking <code class="code">groff</code></a> [<a href="index.html#SEC_Contents" title="Table of contents" rel="contents">Contents</a>][<a href="Request-Index.html" title="Index" rel="index">Index</a>]</p> +</div> + + + +</body> +</html> |