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From: jpr@jpradley.jpr.com (Jean-Pierre Radley)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Nroff -man and two-/one-sided output
Message-ID: <1991Jan19.220314.2476@jpradley.jpr.com>
Date: 19 Jan 91 22:03:14 GMT
References: <12107.2797258a@ecs.umass.edu>
Reply-To: jpr@jpradley.UUCP (Jean-Pierre Radley)
Organization: NYC Public Unix
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In article <12107.2797258a@ecs.umass.edu> lim@ecs.umass.edu writes:
>Nroff with the -man option outputs for two-sided printing (prints on both
>sides of a sheet). As a result, the page numbers are either on the odd or
>even side depending on what page it is. Does anyone know how to change it so
>that the output is for one-sided printing, while still using the -man option?

You'd have to change the an macro file. or copy it to something else. Just
grep-ing for the word 'Page' will turn up a couple of lines with tests for
"if e" and "if o". So don't test for even or odd, and modify the .tl (title)
macro to give you what you prefer.
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 Jean-Pierre Radley	    NYC Public Unix	jpr@jpr.com	CIS: 72160,1341