root@hobbes.UUCP (John Plocher) (04/22/87)
I have: Apple LaserWriter-Plus Adobe TranScript 2.0 I want: Using enscript (or raw postscript) it is simple to produce 2 column landscape output: < 11" > < 5.5" >< 5.5" > +--------------------------+^ | some text more stuff | 8.5" | in columns in another | (you get the picture) +--------------------------+v Can this be done from within *troff? Right now I can do this by setting margins, printing each column on a different page & cutting and pasting to get what I need: < 8.5" > < 5.5" > +----------------+v v | some text | | in a column |8.5" | goes here | | |^ 11" | | | | +----------------+ ^ I have been told that I can also imbed the PS codes to use landscape mode in my *troff files and set .ll and its ilk to the desired values. These two ways seem to be kluges - there *has* to be a better way... Do you know of it? -- John Plocher UUCP: <backbone>!uwvax!uwmacc!hobbes!plocher ============== Internet: plocher%hobbes.UUCP@uwvax.WISC.EDU FidoNet: 121/0 BITNET: uwvax!uwmacc!hobbes!plocher@psuctsNB
moore.wbst@XEROX.COM (04/24/87)
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
patwood@unirot.UUCP (Patrick Wood) (04/28/87)
I've never had any problems printing landscape lines with ditroff. Our PostScript driver can go up to the width of the output device. One problem you can have is troff's internal variables overflowing when the word size vs resolution hits a certain critical point. Pat Wood bellcore!phw5!phw
krstan@ihlpa.ATT.COM (Stanley) (04/28/87)
In article <8704241829.AA04217@brillig.umd.edu> moore.wbst@XEROX.COM writes: >The last time I looked, troff couldn't do lines longer than about 7.5". I beg to differ. I use tbl for landscape tables all the time. I do tell the MM package the length - I don't use troff by itself. Keith R. Stanley Room 4H-328 Bell Laboratories Naperville, Illinois 60566 (312)-979-3416 decvax!ihnp4!ihlpa!krstan @ Berkeley