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Re: groff problem

#152
From: Vidiot
Date: Thu, 09 Apr 1992 18:25
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In article <1992Apr6.210956.25243@spdcc.com> rdonahue@spdcc.com (Bob Donahue) writes:
<
<	I'm using groff V1.05 (which just got installed) and have
<run into the following problem:
<
<	Seems like the ms macros (or mgs macros I guesS) aren't
<too keen about picking up the white space at the top of each page, 
<i.e. text starts without the benefit of page header white space.
<
<	Anyone run into this?  Anyone have a fix for this"?
<
<	I tried the me macros which didn't seem to do much better.
<Wasn't able to change the point size with the .sz command.
<
<	The PostScript inclusion works great though....
<
<BBC

I have 1.04 up at work, but 1.05 shouldn't make a difference.  The following
troff code, when run with -mgs works as expected:


.EH 'GROFF MGS TEST'''
.OH '''GROFF MGS TEST'
.EF 'Page %'''
.OF '''Page %'
This is a test to see that the top margin is correct.
.bp
Checking both page headers and footers.


Keep in mind that the first page doesn't have a header.  In any event, the
text was in the correct place on both pages.

For the -me test, the CAP header and footer calls are changed to lower-case.
It too works as expected.
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From: brown@ftms.UUCP (Vidiot)
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Subject: Re: groff problem
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Date: 9 Apr 92 18:25:41 GMT
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