[Groff] Re: [Groff]

[ralph]

Hi Ty,

> My name is Ty, and i saw your posts to the groff discussion list and
> thought you may be able to help me out a little.
> 
> I am *very* new to groff, troff, and the troff utilities, but have
> been using linux for quite some time (3 - 4 years now?). Anyhow, i
> was looking through one of my handbooks and noticed that Troff, with
> some help from Tbl, could most likely solve my problem. I need to
> create a label run of Video Stores as we are about to do a mailout,
> we usually just have all the addresses in a table in a word document
> and just spend a good 2 hours every time we need to print setting up
> the margins. I assumed that with troff/groff i would be able to
> easily set my print margins like so:
> 
> 15mm - Top Margin
> 15mm - Bottom Margin
> 5mm  - Left Margin
> 5mm  - Right Margin
> 
> Each sticker is 98mm x 38mm and there is a thin space between the
> stickers, running vertically down the page about 3mm wide. All i need
> to do now is set these margins, all the data is included, each
> address in its own cell just the way i needed it... but i havent the
> faintest idea how to format it properly, ive tried using ms and me
> macros to no avail.
> 
> Any help you could provide would be greatly appreciated :)

You're better off asking a wider audience, some of whom have probably
done this before, so I'm copying my reply to the groff mailing list.
Hopefully someone there can assist.  You should consider joining whilst
discussing your problem.

    http://www.ffii.org/mailman/listinfo/groff/

Did you try a Google search?  I turned up scripts like

    http://www.los-gatos.ca.us/davidbu/scripts/file_labels.txt

which you might be able to cannibalise.

Cheers,


Ralph.