Documentation on -man macro and changing pagelength in -man

[Jonathan A. Chandross]

larry at kitty.UUCP (Larry Lippman)
> For the first time I have had the
> occasion to want to change the pagelength from something other than
> the default 66 lines. [...]
> So, I figure I'll edit the man file that I am
> writing and just set .pl manually.  Still no joy. [...]
> How do I set the page length using -man to something other than 66 lines?

Ummmm, I just tried inserting ".pl 3.0i" at the beginning of the
adb man page (first one I found).  Sure enough, nroff produced
output for a page 3.0 inches long.

> Is there documentation on the -man macros, and if so, where is it?

"man 7 man" should give you what you want.


Jonathan A. Chandross
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