[net.text] Using nroff with cut sheet feeders

rbp@investor.UUCP (Bob Peirce) (09/12/86)

We have been using nroff with the mm macros for several years with no
problems.  Recently we added a cut sheet feeder to our Toshiba printer
and things have not been quite the same. 

The problem is the feeder spaces down about an inch from the top of
page.  Then nroff spaces down for the header.  The text starts about two
inches down and we have to set the page length to 60 lines to obtain a
proper bottom margin. 

I experiomented with setting a trap at the top of the page and then
doing a negative vertical space of one inch.  This didn't solve the
problem and seems to affect the mm page break macros.  If anyone has a
solution to this puzzle I would appreciate hearing about it. 
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