SPUG: pod2man: changing point size?

[Cantrall, Christopher W]

> groff -Tps file.man>file.ps

So you're the one making the TPS reports.  We're putting cover-sheets on those reports now.  Did you get that memo?

	Chris

PS
   Yes, I've been watching Office Space ( http://us.imdb.com/Title?0151804 ) -  a great movie.

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tim Maher [mailto:tim at consultix-inc.com] 
> Sent: Friday, August 01, 2003 3:08 PM
> To: SPUG Announcements
> Subject: SPUG: pod2man: changing point size?
> 
> 
> It seems hard to imagine, but there doesn't seem to be any way to
> specify what point-size and vertical-spacing you want when using
> pod2man to convert POD format documentation into troff. There's
> no reason why this should be disallowed, because POD documents
> don't have page-breaks in the first place, and therefore don't
> need preservation by regulating the amount of text per page.
> 
> I can get the (slightly larger) size settings I want in the
> resulting PS (via groff -Tps file.man>file.ps) or PDF
> (via pod2pdf file.ps>file.pdf) files, but only by doing a lot of
> editing of file.man, to insert
> 	.ps 13
> 	.vs 15
> in many places.
> 
> I could certainly change the macro file that's being sourced, but
> this seems like a problem that somebody should already have solved --
> many years ago! 8-}
> 
> Anybody have any suggestions?
> 
> -Tim
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