Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!ccicpg!nick
From: nick@ccicpg.UUCP (Nick Crossley)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: troff and eof
Summary: How to get text after last page?
Keywords: troff, .em, .bp
Message-ID: <16238@ccicpg.UUCP>
Date: 4 Mar 89 09:07:26 GMT
Reply-To: nick@ccicpg.UUCP (Nick Crossley)
Organization: CCI CPG, Irvine CA
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I need to get some text printed after the end of a troff document.
So, I use .em to set up an end-of-input trap, and in that I put my
text.  So far, so good.  However, I want that text on a new page.
So, I add a .bp request before the text.  Unfortunately, this does not
work.  n/troff (and ditroff) exit *within* the .bp call and never process
the additional text I want on the next page.

Actually, it is a bit more complex than that.  There is a page footer
trap, invoked during the .bp in my .em macro.  This page footer does get
processed.  It does a 'bp, and that is the one which never returns.

Does anyone know of some way of getting a .em macro to add a trailing page
of text??
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