Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83 (MC840302); site log-hb.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!vaxine!wjh12!genrad!decvax!mcvax!enea!log-hb!hans From: hans@log-hb.UUCP (Hans Albertsson) Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards Subject: Re: nroff - help wanted Message-ID: <176@log-hb.UUCP> Date: Fri, 15-Jun-84 19:58:14 EDT Article-I.D.: log-hb.176 Posted: Fri Jun 15 19:58:14 1984 Date-Received: Wed, 20-Jun-84 00:28:27 EDT References: <407@kvvax4.UUCP> Organization: TeleLOGIC Nyn{shamn SWEDEN Lines: 24 [] It is possible to have a "trapped macro", that is a macro which is executed every time a particular condition, such as a page transition. It seems to me that such a macro could be one to emit a form-feed. Then setting the pagelength short enough, you're in the clear. The doc is confusing, due to the lack of redundancy ( as is typical of UNIX ), but it's there in Nroff/Troff User's manual, par. 7, par 3. Particularly, there's reference to a top-of-page macro, which is invoked every time a new page is about to be emitted. Presumably this macro can be modified. I haven't tried it, but it seems this is the mechanism through which nroff outputs the last blank line. -- {decvax,philabs}!mcvax!enea!log-hb!hans Hans Albertsson, TeleLOGIC AB Box 1001, S-14901 Nynashamn, SWEDEN