Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site brl-tgr.ARPA Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!brl-tgr!internet!Alan Crosswell From: Alan Crosswell Newsgroups: net.unix Subject: question re: nroff table definition for 8 lpi printer Message-ID: <5640@brl-tgr.ARPA> Date: Wed, 7-Nov-84 14:23:10 EST Article-I.D.: brl-tgr.5640 Posted: Wed Nov 7 14:23:10 1984 Date-Received: Sat, 10-Nov-84 05:29:11 EST Sender: news@brl-tgr.ARPA Organization: Ballistic Research Lab Lines: 13 Hi, I have tried to define an nroff table (version of nroff is whatever comes with 4.2bsd) for a printer that has 8 lines/inch instead of the usual 6. I set up Newline to be INCH/8, Halfline likewise (no halfline capability) and when I get the output, each page has a slightly different number of lines on it (ranging from 71-73 except for the last which comes up 85). This is using the -man macros on /usr/man/man1/{adb.1,cc.1} for example. I edit the table to have INCH/6 and the output comes out perfectly with 66 lines/page. Now INCH == 240, so both INCH/6 and INCH/8 yield whole numbers.... Could anyone suggest where I am going wrong or send me a tabxxx.c that works? /a -------