RE: [Groff] How to disable page numbering

[Ted Harding]

On 24-Sep-10 06:35:02, Chris Velevitch wrote:
> On the second and subsequent pages there is a page number of
> the form "-N-". How do I disable/suppress this?
> 
> Also, there seems to be an additional page offset even though
> I've added a:-
> 
> .po 0
> 
> How do I get rid of that? Is is related to the page numbers being
> displayed?
> 
> I'm doing the following:-
> 
> (cat - <<EOF printerfile ) | groff -P-l -P-pA4 | ps2pdf - test1.pdf
> .pl 21c
> .fam C
> .nr HM 9p
> .nr FM 0
> .nr QI 0
> .nr L 4
> .ID 0
> .PO 0
> .na
> .nf
> .nh
> .vs 9p
> .in 0
> .po 0
> .ll 27c
> .lt 0
> .ps 7
> .tl ''''
> EOF
> 
> This is pretty giving me everything I want except for the page
> numbers and extra page offset.
> 
> Chris

>From ".nr HM 9p", ".nr FM 0", ".nr QI 0", ".ID 0" it looks as
though you intend to use the 'ms' macros. However, there is no
"-ms" in your quoted groff command. You would need at least

(cat - <<EOF printerfile ) | groff -ms -P-l -P-pA4 | ps2pdf - test1.pdf

Without "-ms" none of those requests would have any effect.

When you use the 'ms' macros, there is no macro ".PO", so your
".PO 0" would have no effect. "PO" is a number register, and to
get a zero page-offset you should put ".nr PO 0".

The 'ms' macros take their formatting (page offset, line length,
indent, etc.) from registers like \[PO], \n[LL], etc., and reset
at the start of each paragraph to the values taken from these
registers (which are set up at the beginning of the document
unless explicitly set in the input), requests like ".po 0"
will at most only have effect within the current paragraph.

Page numbers at the head of pages 2 onwards are the result of
the definition of the string "CH" (centre header) in the 'ms'
macros:

.ds CH -\\n[PN]-

To suppress this, re-define "CH" to be empty:

.ds CH

If I'm wrong about your intended use of the 'ms' macros (for
example, what is ".nr L 4" supposed to do? There is no "\n[L]
in the ms macros, though there is a "\n[LL]"), then you need
to tell us what macros you are using. Otherwise your question
will be mysterious!

Hoping this helps,
Ted.


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