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Subject: Re: Printing "landscape" from troff
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Date: Fri, 24-Apr-87 09:53:00 EDT
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The last time I looked, troff couldn't do lines longer than about 7.5".
This is surprising because typesetter independent Troff lets one declare
the device width.  Since the ti-troff doesn't look at the width value,
the declaration is a no-op.  This makes the general case of printing
full landscape lines impossible.  Since, the questioner only wanted to
print two columns of 5.5" text this might still be possible but only
outside of Troff.  For example on might print 5.5"x8.5" pages and then
use some post processor to rotate the pages and make them two up. 

Lee