Monday, October 30, 2017

Re: mandoc output paper size

Hi Mike,
Mike Williams wrote on Mon, Oct 30, 2017 at 10:32:46AM +0000:
> On 10/29/17 19:40, Ingo Schwarze wrote:
>> Mike Williams wrote on Sun, Oct 29, 2017 at 10:26:08AM +0000:

>>> If the media size is important for a page then there
>>> should be a PS setpagedevice call like the following:
>> [...]
>>> Basically don't rely on DSC comments to do media selection.
>> [...]
>>> It may be useful to use a media name such as man-A4, man-letter, etc.

>> Thanks a lot for pointing me to the relevant features and documentation
>> and for providing so much context. That really helped to improve
>> mandoc PostScript output.

> No problem. I do have an interest in this since this is my day work.
> The better the PS/PDF driver the fewer support calls I have to deal with ;)

Wow.

It's always interesting to learn where mandoc is used, including the
less commonly used features.

May i ask in which context you are providing professional support
for mandoc -Tps / -Tpdf output? I didn't even know such support
exists.

Feel free to answer publicly or privately, at your choice.

Thanks,
Ingo

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