Nroff -man and two-/one-sided output

Jean-Pierre Radley jpr at jpradley.jpr.com
Sun Jan 20 09:03:14 AEST 1991


In article <12107.2797258a at ecs.umass.edu> lim at ecs.umass.edu writes:
>Nroff with the -man option outputs for two-sided printing (prints on both
>sides of a sheet). As a result, the page numbers are either on the odd or
>even side depending on what page it is. Does anyone know how to change it so
>that the output is for one-sided printing, while still using the -man option?

You'd have to change the an macro file. or copy it to something else. Just
grep-ing for the word 'Page' will turn up a couple of lines with tests for
"if e" and "if o". So don't test for even or odd, and modify the .tl (title)
macro to give you what you prefer.
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