nroff/troff -ms vertical space

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From: Jeffrey W Percival
Date: Mon, 17 Oct 1988 21:37

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For the life of me, I can't get nroff/troff to skip lines at the top of
a page.  I have a feeling this is related to the distance to the
top-of-page trap, but what do I (short of loading in dummy blank lines)
to get .sp to work?
-- 
Jeff Percival (jwp@larry.sal.wisc.edu)

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From: jwp@larry.UUCP (Jeffrey W Percival)
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Subject: nroff/troff -ms vertical space
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Date: 17 Oct 88 21:37:11 GMT
Organization: UW-Madison Space Astronomy Lab
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