GROLBP (1) | General commands | Unix Manual Pages

For compatibility with grolj4 there is an additional drawing command available:

\D’R dh dv’

-cnumcopies

--copies=numcopies
	Print numcopies copies of each page.
-l
--landscape
	Print the document with a landscape orientation.
-ppaper_size

--papersize=paper_size
	Set the paper size to paper_size, which must be a valid paper size description as indicated in the section "PAPER SIZES".
-oorientation

--orientation=orientation
	Print the document with orientation orientation, which must be ‘portrait’ or ‘landscape’.
-wwidth
--linewidth=width
	Set the default line thickness to width thousandths of an em. If this option isn’t specified, the line thickness defaults to 0.04~em.
-v
--version
	Print the version number.
-Fdir
--fontdir=dir
	Prepend directory dir/devname to the search path for font and device description files; name is the name of the device, usually lbp.
-h
--help	Print a short help text.

The following chart summarizes the font names you can use to access these fonts:

Typeface	Regular	Bold	Italic	Bold-Italic
Dutch	TR	TB	TI	TBI

See groff_font(1) how to set the paper dimensions in the DESC file.

To set the paper size in the command line, add

-p paper-size

--papersize=paper-size

to the other grolbp options, where paper-size is in the same format as in the DESC file.

To set the orientation in the DESC file, insert a line with the following content:

orientation [portrait|landscape]

Only the first valid orientation command in the DESC file is used.

lbpname printer_font_name

o	For bitmapped fonts, printer_font_name has the form N\(labase_fontname\(ra\(lafont_style\(ra base_fontname is the font name as it appears in the printers font listings without the first letter, up to (but not including) the font size. font_style can be one of the letters R, I, or B, indicating the font styles Roman, Italic and Bold respectively.
	For instance, if the printer’s font listing A shows font ‘Nelite12I.ISO_USA’, the corresponding entry in the font description file is lbpname NeliteI
	Note that you may need to modify grolbp to add support for new bitmapped fonts, since the available font names and font sizes of bitmapped fonts (as documented above) are hard-coded into the program.
o	For scalable fonts, printer_font_name is identical to the font name as it appears in the printer’s "font listing A".
	For instance, to select the ‘Swiss’ font in bold style, which appears in the printer’s font listing A as ‘Swiss-Bold’, the required lbpname command line is lbpname Swiss-Bold

/usr/share/groff_font/devlbp/DESC
	Device description file.
/usr/share/groff_font/devlbp/F
	Font description file for font F.
/usr/share/tmac/lbp.tmac
	Macros for use with grolbp.