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From: parker@zaphod.Berkeley.EDU (Ross Parker)
Newsgroups: comp.text,comp.lang.postscript,comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Can you make ditroff print in landscape orientation on an Apple laserwriter?
Message-ID: <1900@eric.mpr.ca>
Date: 16 Nov 89 18:47:24 GMT
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Reply-To: parker@zaphod.Berkeley.EDU (Ross Parker)
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In article <621@alias.UUCP>, mherman@alias.UUCP (Michael Herman) writes:
> The tools are have at hand are:
>     - ditroff, tbl and -ms
>     - Adobe Transcript
>     - an Apple LaserWriter Plus
> 
> The ideal solution would be something like:
>     - set *these* troff registers to *these* values
>     - set *these* -ms registers to *these* values
>     - use *these* options when you run *these* Transcript programs
> 
> ... but I am interested in hearing about any solution that might work.

If you're using Transcript version 2.1 (I think this will work for
earlier versions also), simply add a '-r' flag onto the 'psdit'
command line. You'll need to set up the page length and page width
within your document to suit (and tbl still has a hard-coded limit,
I believe). Here's a sample command line:

tbl file | /usr/lib/ditroff -ms -Tpsc -i | /usr/local/transcript/psdit -r |
	lpr -Pps

Hope this helps...

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