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How to change the width for groff ascii outp.

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lukasp
2010-01-20
2012-07-26
  • lukasp

    lukasp - 2010-01-20

    Hello,

    I have a text file which is reformatted by groff to another ascii file. But
    width of the output page is 66 characters and I'd rather have 80 characters.

    How do I change it?

    WinXP user, I use "groff.exe -Tascii source.txt > result.txt" to reformat
    file.

    Thank you in advance.

    LukasP

     
  • Allan

    Allan - 2010-01-21

    I think you need to learn a little about formatting documents by first reading
    the groff manual. Do you have an Info reader or emacs installed? When I
    perused the manual it suggested that you first should select a macro such as
    `man\' and then format the document using text formatting commands that begin
    with `.\'.