Re: [Groff] A few mom incompetencies

2012-11-18 Thread Ted Harding
It would seem that the horizontal line below the first line on the output page is generated by the macro .NEWPAGE (tested by inserting an extra .NEWPAGE). I can't work out from the [m]om.tmac file how it does this, nor what should be done to prevent it happening (it probably needs one of the

Re: [Groff] A few mom incompetencies

2012-11-18 Thread Tadziu Hoffmann
It's in the documentation. [...] there is a line at the top of the page. If I want it to go away how do I do it? .HEADER_RULE OFF If I want it to stay how do I get text to land below the line instead of on top of it? If you set T_MARGIN, the position of the page header is set

Re: [Groff] A few mom incompetencies

2012-11-18 Thread Peter Schaffter
Mikkel -- Sorry for weighing in on this so late. On Sun, Nov 18, 2012, Tadziu Hoffmann wrote: Therefore I decided to do it all with simple typesetting macros. It is fine but I have some minor problems. [...] there is a line at the top of the page. If I want it to go away how do I do

[Groff] producing a booklet with groff ?

2012-11-18 Thread Mike Bianchi
Day in and day out, I'm a groff mm macro guy. 8 1/2 x 11 paper, double-sided, stapled at the left edge. But now I want to print out a booklet where the pages are 4 to a sheet and the sheets are printed so I just fold the stack in half and staple that edge to create a booklet. Is that a solved

Re: [Groff] producing a booklet with groff ?

2012-11-18 Thread Tadziu Hoffmann
But now I want to print out a booklet where the pages are 4 to a sheet and the sheets are printed so I just fold the stack in half and staple that edge to create a booklet. Is that a solved problem? Yes. Output to ps and then use psbook and pstops.

Re: [Groff] producing a booklet with groff ?

2012-11-18 Thread Tadziu Hoffmann
Have you dealt with gutters? gutter: The blank space between facing pages of a book. It would involve shifting the odd pages right and the even pages left 1/4 inch or so. This is something I tend to ignore. More fancy page layouts suggest making the inner margin smaller than the