Re: [Groff] setting a custom page length

[Richard Ray]

On Fri, 2 Apr 2010, Tadziu Hoffmann wrote:

> > If I set .pl 15i the resulting document is 11i long and the
> > bottom of my document is cut off How else should I define a
> > custom length Using groff-1.18.1
> >
> > $ cat long_page_test
> > .pl 15i
> > this is the top
> > .sp |14.5i
> > this is the bottom
> >
> > $ groff long_page_test > long_page_test.ps
> >
> > If I change .sp |14.5i -> .sp |10.5i the text "this is the
> > bottom" prints at the bottom of the page
>
> With ".pl 15i" you just tell troff to format the text for
> a page this long.  To actually use paper of that size, you
> must also tell grops (the device postprocessor) to request
> the printer to switch to paper of that size:
>
>  bash$ groff -P-p15i,8i long_page_test >long_page_test.ps

Don't y'all just love dealing with beginners
I had figured out that I had to pass a page size to grops but I had it 
stuck in my head that it had to be a defined size, letter, legal, a2, ...
Is this not documented or did I just overlook it

Richard