Re: [Groff] Re: GROFF

[Ricardo]

"Stewart C. Russell" wrote:
> 
> > Not that I'm clear what relevance it would have but that's
> > the best meaning I can attach to `mirrored'.
> 
> As one who's had a little experience in having print work done in
> Brazil, I suspect that Ricardo is wanting to feed a filmsetter. These
> (sometimes -- depending on whether you use emulsion-side-up or
> emulsion-side-down film) need PS that is mirrored horizontally.

Quite this. We need mirrored postscript vertically to feed a filmsetter.

> 
> This is trivially done, and I'm not sure it warrants a whole new
> prologue-handling mechanism. For A4, all you need do in the page setup
> is:

but, i want to pass one option, to my docbook-to-groff tool, and then,
the tool pass the option to grops.

Maybe, doing like TeX(dvips -Z mirror.hd file.dvi -o file.ps), passing
one userdict file, that replace /BP function or any other... helps.


;( i still don't know awk, right now, i am working with perl, soon, i
will learn awk.

hugs,
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