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From: runyan@hpcuhc.cup.hp.com (Mark Runyan)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Suppressing page numbers in nroff
Message-ID: <250013@hpcuhc.cup.hp.com>
Date: 31 Dec 90 16:17:56 GMT
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>/ ntm1169@dsac.dla.mil (Mott Given) /  7:18 am  Dec 27, 1990 /
>
>   I would like to know how I can suppress page numbers and the associated
>   blank lines in a report being printed with nroff.  I want to suppress the
>   page numbers as I am running the nroff output through another program 
>   (an internal one at our agency) which controls the font selected for a laser
>   printer.  The font I select can print many more lines per page than the
>   output of nroff, which leaves the nroff-produced page numbers in the middle
>   of my pages.  

I'm not able to tell you how to eliminate the page breaks using nroff
options, but I do have another suggestion.  If possible, you might want to
use the -rL command line option.  This will change the length of the page.
Determine what the page length should be for your printer with the given
font and use -rL to set the page length.  This allows those page numbers
to actually fit in place properly and actually mean something.

>   Also, is this the best newsgroup for this type of question, or is there a
>   better one to post to?

This is as good a place as any.  However, there is a comp.text that might
be able to provide a more complete answer.

Mark Runyan