Hello, Mike
A long time ago you gave me this tip:
> To format a document of arbitrary length as _one_ nroff page
> I use this trick.
>
> First, set the page length _very_ long:
> .pl 99999
>
> And then make the last two lines of input a line break and
> setting the page length to the _current_ page length.
> .br
> .pl \\n[nl]u
Some time later I came up with a better way of doing
this and now that I have remembered about your
advice, I'd like to share it with you: just use an
end-of-input trap to set the real page-length in the
end. This way, it can be included/declared in the
beginning of a file and you won't have to insert any
code at the bottom:
.\" Trim page to total height of text.
.de sp-adj
. br
. pl \\n[nl]u
..
.
.\" Set single-page mode
.de sp-set
. pl 99999
. em sp-adj
..
Now just call sp-set and you're done. Sorry if this
was obvious to you :) Maybe other beginners reading
the mailing list or its archive list will find it
useful...
Anton
