nroff page offset

[Peter Fales]

In article <189 at zebra.UUCP>, vern at zebra.UUCP (Vernon C. Hoxie) writes:
> 
> Can someone give me a clue how I can offset the output of a manual page
> to the right about a half inch.  Under the default settings, the page
> has a margin of about 3/4 inch on the left and 2 inches on the right. 
> When I punch holes to insert the page in a notebook, the printing gets
> punched away and all that right margin is wasted.
> 
> I have tried numerous variations on:
> 
> 	nroff -Tfx-12 -rO14 -man compress.1 | lp

I have run into the same problem.  Apparently, the man macros do not
pay attention to the O register.  It is kind of messy, but the shell
script I use to format man pages with troff looks something like this:

( echo ".po 1i" ; cat $1 ) | troff -man ....

For nroff, the .po would be something like 15 if you wanted an offset
of 15 characters (1.5 inches on many printers).

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