Re: [Groff] Get margin of a Postscript file

[Robert Thorsby]

On 11/12/12 11:11:21, Ralph Corderoy wrote:
> > I would think with a little work you could use ImageMagick to  
> extract
> > the margin regions from each page, and check each one for the  
> presence
> > of pixels.
>
> One could over-print all the pages onto one page.

Is it possible that everyone is spending so much time looking at the  
trees that they are not seeing the wood?

Academic institutions love to receive "standard" manuscripts; it has  
always been so. Usually they specify "A4, single-sided, 12pt  
double-space, 50mm margins all round" or something similar.

Now, apply this to a modern anal-retentive academic institution, and it  
will nowadays probably provide an MS Word template and demand that  
everything be submitted in MS doc format using Word and the  
institution-supplied template.

The earlier suggestion that you simply check the settings in the  
university's template, to my mind, make sense. You can then create  
appropriate setting for a set of groff macros. Or better yet, use the  
mom macros.

Other typesetting engines (LyX, for example) have many templates for  
academic institutions and publishers.

I can't see an academic institution wasting time or effort in  
micro-measuring.

Robert