Re: [Groff] Get margin of a Postscript file

[Robert Thorsby]

On 11/12/12 18:44:01, address@hidden wrote:
> 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 ...

I don't think the institution has any intention of checking -- if it  
looks right it is right.

I think that you will find greater resistance in trying to convince  
your academic that a meticulously crafted template used by the most  
powerful desktop publishing machine in the known universe can be  
equalled (let alone bested) by Notepad using reveal codes. :-)

Robert
Where a computer like the ENIAC is equipped with 18,000 vacuum tubes  
and weighs 30 tons, computers in the future may have only 1,000 vacuum  
tubes and weigh only 1 1/2 tons.
                -- Popular Mechanics, March 1949