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From: kgd@rlvd.UUCP (Keith Dancey)
Newsgroups: net.research,net.unix
Subject: Re: Problems with troff output on a SUN Laserwriter
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Date: Thu, 25-Sep-86 15:30:27 EDT
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Posted: Thu Sep 25 15:30:27 1986
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In article <430@comp.lancs.ac.uk> john@comp.lancs.ac.uk (John R. Nicol) writes:
>
>I've prepared my Ph.D. thesis using troff and its me macro package. However...
 
>"Page offset + Line Length exceeds the width of the paper"
 
>The resulting laser-written output is garbled too. Strange thing is the above
>message is garbage: my line length (.ll) is 5.75i and I'm using std British
>A4 size paper. 
 
I very much expect that 'me' is resetting the line length, somewhere.  Have
a quick look through its source for '.ll' or a register holding its value.
Certainly, the 'ms' macros reset the line length...
 
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