[Gllug] PDF creation

[Alain Williams]

On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 02:04:28PM +0100, - Tethys wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 11:08 AM, Alain Williams <addw at phcomp.co.uk> wrote:
> 
> > Use groff, you can then get it to do a bit of nice formatting for you:
> >
> > groff -ma4 -mm  -etpsR file.mm > $Tmpf.ps
> > ps2pdf $Tmpf.ps $Tmpf.pdf
> 
> This is indeed more or less exactly how my invoices are generated
> (I use a bit of sed to populate a template input file with the
> invoice data, and another bit of sed magic after layout to add
> a watermark to the PostScript, before converting to PDF). Out of
> interest, why use -mm macros? I've always used -ms, but that's
> just because that's what I was brought up with.  A brief glance
> doesn't seem to show much substantial difference between the two.
> Is it just a BSD vs AT&T heritage thing?

Yes: After Unix Edition 7 I spent many years with System III & then System V
& stuff from AT&T - who used the mm macros. I still use them for letter writing.

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