nroff - help wanted
Hans Albertsson
hans at log-hb.UUCP
Sat Jun 16 09:58:14 AEST 1984
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It is possible to have a "trapped macro", that is a macro which is
executed every time a particular condition, such as a page transition.
It seems to me that such a macro could be one to emit a form-feed.
Then setting the pagelength short enough, you're in the clear.
The doc is confusing, due to the lack of redundancy ( as is typical of
UNIX ), but it's there in
Nroff/Troff User's manual, par. 7, par 3.
Particularly, there's reference to a top-of-page macro, which is invoked
every time a new page is about to be emitted. Presumably this macro can
be modified.
I haven't tried it, but it seems this is the mechanism through which
nroff outputs the last blank line.
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