Re: [Groff] Get margin of a Postscript file

[Ted Harding]

On 11-Dec-2012 00:42:36 Robert Thorsby wrote:
> 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

After all this discussion, it occurs to me that possibly Jérôme's
institution (a) want it in Word doc format; (b) when they get it
in that format can look into the document settings and verify that
their canonical template is present. Never mind what comes out on
the paper.

With (b), there is no way that a PS file can pretend to meet the
criteria! However, maybe I'm getting cynical ...

Best wishes to all,
Ted.

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