Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!psuvax1!vu-vlsi!dsinc!syd
From: syd@dsinc.UUCP (Syd Weinstein)
Newsgroups: comp.text
Subject: Re: Page Marks in Troff (unwanted)
Message-ID: <405@dsinc.UUCP>
Date: 5 Jun 88 22:36:09 GMT
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Reply-To: syd@dsinc.UUCP (Syd Weinstein)
Organization: Datacomp Systems, Inc., Huntingdon Valley, PA 19006
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In article  dr2w+@andrew.cmu.edu (Donald J. Ramsay) writes:
>
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>
>   I have been using (di)troff on a ATT 3B2 for several months with
>   good results but am frustrated by one minor point. On the top of
>   every page there are a pair of page alignment marks,  presumably
>   for cutting pages by a photo-typesetter, which are most annoying.
>
>   Does anyone know how to turn these off?

They are not coming from troff, but from the macro package
you are using.

If you are using mm, the macro to change is: )k
the )k macro outputs the cut marks.

.de)k
.po0
.lt7.5i
.ps10
.vs10p
.ft1
.tl'--''--'
.ft
.vs
.po
.ps
.lt
..

As can be seen, this macro doesnt do anything it doesnt restore,
so you can just delete it and the .)k call will do nothing and
everything will work fine.  If you even want to remove the call
thats ok also.

Other macro packages may differ slightly.
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