Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!rutgers!ames!styx!elxsi!beatnix!gww From: gww@beatnix..UUCP (Gary Winiger) Newsgroups: comp.text Subject: Re: Getting rid of cut marks in troff C/A/T output to LaserWriter Plus Message-ID: <209@elxsi.UUCP> Date: Tue, 23-Dec-86 13:04:45 EST Article-I.D.: elxsi.209 Posted: Tue Dec 23 13:04:45 1986 Date-Received: Tue, 23-Dec-86 22:38:20 EST References: <2369@psuvax1.UUCP> Sender: nobody@elxsi.UUCP Reply-To: gww@beatnix.UUCP (Gary Winiger) Distribution: na Organization: ELXSI Super Computers, San Jose Lines: 22 Keywords: LaserWriter Plus, PostScript, TranScript, ptroff In article <2369@psuvax1.UUCP> ehrlich@psuvax1.UUCP (Dan Ehrlich) writes: >Can anyone suggest a method for eliminating the cut marks that troff generates? >When the output from ptroff (Adobe's TranScript troff script) get printed on >the LaserWriter Plus there are cut marks at the top of the page. Short of >buying stock in the company that makes white out, any suggestions would be >appreciated. Thanks in advance. The cut marks are not being made by troff, but by direction of the macro package. For example in the -ms macro package (/usr/lib/tmac/tmac.s) for troff (ditroff is probably different, mine is in /usr/local/lib/ditmac/tmac.s), there is a reference to the macro CM. This macro generates the cut marks. You can make this macro a ``noop'' by defining it in your input as null. Viz. .de CM .. Or you can, as is often done in ditroff, only call it if the output is to a device like a Versatec that has continuous paper. Happy printing. Gary.. {ucbvax!sun,styx,altos86}!elxsi!gww