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From: ptb@ittc.wec.com (Pat Broderick)
Newsgroups: comp.text,comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Documentation on -man macro and changing pagelength in -man
Summary: getting page to desired length
Keywords: *roff -man macros documentation pagelength
Message-ID: <166@ittc.wec.com>
Date: 19 Jul 90 22:03:43 GMT
References: <3865@kitty.UUCP>
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Organization: Westinghouse Electric Corp., ITTC, Pgh. PA.
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In article <3865@kitty.UUCP>, larry@kitty.UUCP (Larry Lippman) writes:
> 
> 	I have been writing manual pages in *roff using the -man macro
> ....
> writing and just set .pl manually.  Still no joy.
> 

I had the same problem a long time ago and solved it by putting a .pl in
the *roff file AFTER the .TH which defines title, etc.  From what I
remember I believe .TH arbitrarily set page length to 66.  BTW if you
ever find useful documentation I'd like to know.

Patrick T. Broderick           |ptb@ittc.wec.com |
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