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From: fgreco@shearson.com (Frank Greco)
Newsgroups: comp.text
Subject: tbl/ptroff/ms
Message-ID: <1990Jun27.215354.26439@shearson.com>
Date: 27 Jun 90 21:53:54 GMT
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Organization: Shearson Lehman Hutton, NY
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Troff-ers,

I'm having a bit of a problem in creating multi-page reports in (p)troff/ms/tbl
in landscape mode.

I have a program that creates a tbl/troff file.  The size of the table
is unknown ahead of time (we're extracting stuff out of a database).

1.  The Sun docs are rather obtuse in the troff area.  I've found the
.TS H and .TH/.TE macro(s) in the manuals.  Could someone please explain the
use of these macros a *little* better than the Sun docs?  I've tried
several combinations and I'm not having any luck.

2.  How does one landscape-ize (11 X 8.5) a troff document?  When I
attempt to change .pl, troff does not know how to correctly pagebreak.
It attempts to print two separate pages on one sheet of paper.
When I attempt to change .LL (via .nr LL <something>), troff complains
that "PO + LL exceeds 7.54 inches".  Gees, I want it to exceed 7.54 inches!
I want it landscape!


Thanks all,

Frank G.

[please respond via email... thanks]
[...and I *do* know that TeX exists ;-)...]


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