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Steve Hammond writes:

>When I go with the plain vanilla settings (no setup file), the stdlist
>prints in landscape mode, but only 60 lines per page, not 66.
>
>...The line
>spacing is no help, because the jump from 6 lines/inch to 12 per inch is
>too much and there's no setting in between.

You need to use the escape sequence to set the vertical motion index
(VMI) directly. This is <esc>&l###C, where ### is the line spacing in
48ths of an inch. So to get 66 lines in 7.5 inches (with a .5 inch top
and bottom margin), use <esc>&l5.45C. (because (7.5 / 66) * 48 =
5.4545...).

-- Bruce


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