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Article #2950Re: inserting blank pages in troff documents
From: John Rupley
Date: Thu, 06 Jun 1991 17:20
Date: Thu, 06 Jun 1991 17:20
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In article <1922@richsun.cpg.trs.reuter.com> doj@cpg.trs.reuter.com (Dave James) writes: >How to insert blank pages in troff? I use an escaped space on the >blank page, so troff thinks there is real text, thus actually >"break paging" the 2nd time.. e.g., > > .bp > \<SPACE_HERE> > .bp I believe the request was for a method to get an empty page after the current page was filled. With mm macros the following should work (I haven't tested it): \" In header .nr De 1 .nr Df 4 text.... .DF \" For a "blank" page, with header, footer, and number .DE more text.... Other ways to do it, but this seems pretty simple. John Rupley
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!asuvax!ncar!noao!arizona!rupley From: rupley@cs.arizona.edu (John Rupley) Newsgroups: comp.text Subject: Re: inserting blank pages in troff documents Message-ID: <4000@optima.cs.arizona.edu> Date: 6 Jun 91 17:20:10 GMT References: <6339@ns-mx.uiowa.edu> <1922@richsun.cpg.trs.reuter.com> Sender: news@cs.arizona.edu Organization: U of Arizona CS Dept, Tucson Lines: 25