[bug #63428] [me] want registers to set initial line length, page length, page offset

[G. Branden Robinson]

URL:
  <https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?63428>

                 Summary: [me] want registers to set initial line length, page
length, page offset
                 Project: GNU troff
               Submitter: gbranden
               Submitted: Sat 26 Nov 2022 07:24:55 PM UTC
                Category: Macro me
                Severity: 1 - Wish
              Item Group: Feature change
                  Status: None
                 Privacy: Public
             Assigned to: None
             Open/Closed: Open
         Discussion Lock: Any
         Planned Release: None


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Date: Sat 26 Nov 2022 07:24:55 PM UTC By: G. Branden Robinson <gbranden>
Right now it is only possible to set these _before_ the package initializes by
futzing with device description and/or device macro files.  Practically no one
will do that.

DWB mm's approach of having command-line-settable registers for these was not
a bad one.

Possible names that don't collide with existing me(7) usage would be:

il: initial line length
ip: initial page length
io: initial page offset

The "initial" here is key; without that qualifier, the user might think that
changes to these registers within a document will have instant effect, which
is not true.  Requests must be used.  Hence starting the names with "i".







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