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Re: [Groff] Converting basic units to inches in PostScript


From: John Gardner
Subject: Re: [Groff] Converting basic units to inches in PostScript
Date: Thu, 4 Aug 2016 11:55:39 +1000

> Use .in \\nWu (capital "W"). Your "W" is the address width in device
units.

Uh... yeah, you're 100% right. I'm an idiot, haha.

I must've been randomly trying different divisions before I knew to append
the "u", heh.

Thank you!!!


On 4 August 2016 at 01:27, Tadziu Hoffmann <address@hidden>
wrote:

>
> > Hrm, well, adding the `u` suffix to `.in` *did* change the
> > indentation, but it's suddenly too small.
>
> Use
>
>   .in \\nWu
>
> (capital "W").  Your "W" is the address width in device units.
>
> Your "w" (lowercase "w") is address width in device units
> divided by font size in points, which is probably not a
> useful quantity here.
>
>
>
>


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