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From: holub@violet.berkeley.edu
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Subject: fancy margins with troff -mm
Keywords: troff -mm margins
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Date: 8 Jun 89 17:39:43 GMT
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Has anyone modified -mm so that it will print wide left and narrow right
margines on even numbered pages and wide-right/narrow-left margins on odd pages?
That is, I need the wide margin to be at the outside of the page and the narrow
margin to be at the inside, like this:

even (left) page:	odd (right) page:
+----------------+	+----------------+
| header....text |	| header....text |
|		 |	|		 |
|      text text |	| text text 	 |
|      text text |	| text text 	 |
|      text text |	| text text 	 |
|      text text |	| text text 	 |
+----------------+	+----------------+

It's easy to get the odd pages working correctly (I even have a marginal-note
macro), but the even pages are harder. Anyway, if you've done it, I could use
some help. Thanks.

	-Allen Holub	holub@violet.berkeley.edu     ...!ucbvax!violet!holub