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Article #5030Re: nroff/mm problem
From: Eduardo Krell
Date: Tue, 23 Aug 1988 18:30
Date: Tue, 23 Aug 1988 18:30
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In article <372@seila.UUCP> don@seila.UUCP writes:
>this is driving us crazy:
>
>how do you force nroff (using the mm macro package)
>to leave n spaces at the top of a page? .sp and .SP seem
>to have no effect.
.sp at the top of a page doesn't do anything. You have to force
it to output some text. I do
\
.sp <whatever>
There's a space after the backslash. That forces a space to be printed
and the .sp will now be honored.
I've converted to LaTeX years ago, but I still remember some of these
terrible troff kludges.
Eduardo Krell AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, NJ
UUCP: {att,decvax,ucbvax}!ulysses!ekrell Internet: ekrell@ulysses.att.com
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!ulysses!hector!ekrell From: ekrell@hector.UUCP (Eduardo Krell) Newsgroups: comp.text Subject: Re: nroff/mm problem Keywords: .SP .sp top-of-page Message-ID: <10534@ulysses.homer.nj.att.com> Date: 23 Aug 88 18:30:07 GMT References: <372@seila.UUCP> Sender: netnews@ulysses.homer.nj.att.com Reply-To: ekrell@hector.UUCP (Eduardo Krell) Distribution: na Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories Lines: 22