Fwd: Re: code review and strategy for macros set? [address@hidden]

[Robert Thorsby]

OOPPSS


On 14/08/20 09:20:20, Dave Kemper wrote:
Thanks for the clarification, Robert.  Was this meant to go to the
list?  I see I'm the only recipient.

On 8/11/20, Robert Thorsby <robert@thorsby.com.au> wrote:
> Sometimes I set oddball papersizes and ps2pdf doesn't like them (so I
> replace sPAPERSIZE with dDEVICEWIDTHPOINTS and dDEVICEHEIGHTPOINTS).
> And sometimes my groff input file doesn't have any page layout
> dimensions (no po, ll, or pl).  So this becomes a belt'n'braces
> scenario.
>
> It is also worth remembering that sometimes applications installed by
> packet managers come with "interesting" defaults -- in which case a
> belt'n'braces approach may be necessary.
>
> BTW, my CLI was included simply to show that I didn't use any macros  
> to
> produce the output -- other than the PSPIC macro that is included as
> part of the Tps option.
>
> Robert