DOS compiled groff386 VS bug

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From: James Clark
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 05:04

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   I'm using the distributed copy of groff compiled for DOS--it only knows
   how to produce -Tps and -Tascii output, so I'm using the Ghostscript
   package to do the PS==>HP PCL translation.  Setting .nr VS greater than
   or equal to 40 results in all the text appearing on the first possible
   printable line on the page, with vertical spacing appearing to be
   0--all the lines print over each other.

The -ms macros allow you to specify VS either in points or in machine
units.  If you specify a value that, interpreted as points, is >= 40
points then the macros guess you are specifying a value in machine
units.  So if you really want a vertical spacing >= 40p, you must
specify the vertical spacing in units:

   .nr VS 40p

James Clark
jjc@jclark.com

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