nroff + me macros -- dropped lines in output?

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From: Tom Poage
Date: Tue, 02 May 1989 04:42

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Hi, all.

I have a question that's been bugging me about nroff
and the `me' macros.  I'm using `thesis' mode, and when
I break to get a new chapter `.+c' the output loses one
or two lines.  Actually it doesn't matter if I use thesis
mode or not.  Setting page length doesn't help either.

For example, if chapter 1 starts on line 9, chapter 2
starts on line 8 and chapter 3 starts on line 7.
I'm using tmac.e 2.14 and 2.28 on a Sun-3 (3.5 OS).
It seems like I've gone through the macros a thousand
times! :-(  Any clues?  Thanks.  Tom.

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From: poage@sunny.ucdavis.edu (Tom Poage)
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Subject: nroff + me macros -- dropped lines in output?
Keywords: me macros nroff thesis mode chapter break
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Date: 2 May 89 04:42:48 GMT
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