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From: morrell@hpsal2.HP.COM (Michael Morrell)
Newsgroups: comp.text
Subject: Re: fancy margins with troff -mm
Message-ID: <2610027@hpsal2.HP.COM>
Date: 9 Jun 89 18:24:38 GMT
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/ hpsal2:comp.text / holub@violet.berkeley.edu / 10:39 am  Jun  8, 1989 /
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 	 |
+----------------+	+----------------+
----------

I think all you have to do is switch the page offset for odd and even pages.
Add some code like:

  .if e .po 2i
  .if o .po 0

in either a header or footer macro (for example, .PX).

    Michael