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Re: [Groff] Re: pagesize for terminal output


From: Werner LEMBERG
Subject: Re: [Groff] Re: pagesize for terminal output
Date: Wed, 02 Mar 2011 11:38:22 +0100 (CET)

> A switch that let grotty ignore a given page size inside a document.

.rn pl pl-orig
.de pl
.  pl-orig 9999i
..

> And the rationale is exactly what you said: paper sizes and screen
> sizes do not mix properly; so it may be useful to ignore a length
> and leave the "page break" to a pager.

Exactly.  For man pages this is done like this by default.


    Werner



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