Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site redwood.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!ihnp4!zehntel!dual!amdcad!fortune!rhino!redwood!rpw3 From: rpw3@redwood.UUCP (Rob Warnock) Newsgroups: net.unix Subject: Re: Full text of YASC (please bother with us) Message-ID: <113@redwood.UUCP> Date: Fri, 11-Jan-85 08:14:54 EST Article-I.D.: redwood.113 Posted: Fri Jan 11 08:14:54 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 20-Jan-85 07:53:40 EST References: <199@usl.UUCP> Organization: [Consultant], Foster City, CA Lines: 33 +--------------- | How do you change the line length in the macro package "-ms" ? I tried | the .nr LL 7.5 or others, and it would not work. | {akgua,ut-sally}!usl!sigma | P.S Enter it to the stupid question of the year award... +--------------- You know, I used to have problems with that, and asked MY "stupid question", and got an answer from an older-timer, so now I pass it on to you... Setting the registers (variables) such as "LL" is not sufficient if you want the change to occur immediately (or in some cases to stick at all?). You need to also change the underlying "nroff" register. The following is what I typically use as a preamble: .RT You need one "ms" command to initialize things. .nr LL 7i Set the line length (width) that "ms" knows. .ll 7i Tell "nroff" about it. .nr PO 0.75i Move the page over a bit. .po 0.75i Make sure "nroff" agrees. .DA 11 Jan 1985 (Personal preference... I like the date it was EDITED, not the date it was printed.) .LP Or .TL or .PP etc. Hope that helps. Rob Warnock Systems Architecture Consultant UUCP: {ihnp4,ucbvax!dual}!fortune!redwood!rpw3 DDD: (415)572-2607 USPS: 510 Trinidad Lane, Foster City, CA 94404