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From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Landscape mode in troff
Message-ID: <13303@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Date: 5 Jul 90 04:27:03 GMT
References: <3616@mcgp1.UUCP>
Organization: U.S. Army Ballistic Research Laboratory, APG, MD.
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In article <3616@mcgp1.UUCP> flak@mcgp1.UUCP (Dan Flak) writes:
>Can it be done? If so, how?

"troff" does not know about "portrait" vs. "landscape"; it merely
produces instructions for subsequent typesetting.  It does have
default assumptions about page size, margins, etc. but these can
be overridden.  How you tell your troff postprocessor to use a
landscape mode is dependent on the particular postprocessor.

Here is how I usually do this, but odds are you need to adapt this
for your particular environment.  Note also that some implementations
of "tbl" have inappropriate line-length limits built into them; these
are easily enlarged if you have source code.

	troff -Ti300 -rL8.5i -rW9i -mm my_file | dimp -L