Re: [Groff] Re: pagesize for terminal output

[walter harms]

Am 01.03.2011 12:28, schrieb Ralph Corderoy:
> Hi Walter,
> 
> Anton Shepelev wrote:
>> Walter Harms:
>>> thx  for  the  hint, but how does setting the page lenght affect the
>>> printed output ? the main  point is  to print the document, showing
>>> it is only sec- ond.
>>
>> It depends on what you call printed output.  If  you mean  the  output
>> of  one of groff's character-cell devices (-Tascii, -Tlatin1,...) then
>> yes.
> 
> If you only want to set a very long page length, or an end of input
> trap, for `nroff' output and not troff then use a
> 
>     .if n ...do nroff-only things...
> 
> There's a matching `t' as well that's only true if we're troff.  That
> way your PostScript output can be paged, and your terminal output not.
> 

this looks like a good idea. please can you be more explicit ? I am more
a casual groff user and have no idea who to manipulate output device
beyond the command line.

(NTL: it would be a nice extension for grotty to have a switch like "papersize" 
)

re,
 wh