Alan Crosswell <US.ALAN%CU20B@COLUMBIA.ARPA> (11/07/84)
Hi, I have tried to define an nroff table (version of nroff is whatever comes with 4.2bsd) for a printer that has 8 lines/inch instead of the usual 6. I set up Newline to be INCH/8, Halfline likewise (no halfline capability) and when I get the output, each page has a slightly different number of lines on it (ranging from 71-73 except for the last which comes up 85). This is using the -man macros on /usr/man/man1/{adb.1,cc.1} for example. I edit the table to have INCH/6 and the output comes out perfectly with 66 lines/page. Now INCH == 240, so both INCH/6 and INCH/8 yield whole numbers.... Could anyone suggest where I am going wrong or send me a tabxxx.c that works? /a -------