troff footnote problem

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From: Russell Lawrence
Date: Fri, 04 Aug 1989 01:41

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We're having a real problem getting troff to handle footnotes 
properly on long documents using mm.  Whenever it's unable to 
place a footnote on the page where it belongs, troff carries it 
over to the succeeding page, but instead of placing the footnote 
below a page wide rule, it indents about five or six inches 
before placing the text.  As a result, any carried over footnotes 
almost always end up running off the page.  

Has anybody else encountered this problem?  How can we fix it?
-- 
Russell Lawrence, WP Group, New Orleans (504) 443-5000
russ@wpg.com   uunet!wpg!russ

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From: russ@wpg.com (Russell Lawrence)
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Subject: troff footnote problem
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Date: 4 Aug 89 01:41:10 GMT
Organization: WP Group, POB 306, Metairie, LA 70004
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