[net.text] Moving the Left Margin Using .po In nroff

olson@dataio.UUCP (Darryl Olson) (11/30/84)

I am using nroff with the ms macros.  I want to set the left printing margin 
to 4 spaces to the right of the paper's or files's left margin.  I use the 
following nroff command:

    /usr/bin/nroff -ms nroff_header FILENAME

The file nroff_header includes the following commands:

.LP         \"invoke the ms macro package
.po +4      \"set the left margin 4 spaces from the left edge of the paper
.nh         \"disable hyphenation

The result is that the left printing margin is moved 4 spaces to the 
right of the paper's or file's left margin for only the first page.  The 
left printing margin for all of the other pages is the left margin of
the paper or the file.

What do I have to do to move the left printing margin for all of the pages?

Thanks in advance for the help.

Darryl Olson

     ...uw-beaver!teltone!dataio!olson

jaap@haring.UUCP (12/03/84)

You should read the manual again, on the last page the registers are
listed which control the defaults. So to get a page offset to 4m (or
n's in nroff) do

	.nr PO 4m

before the first .LP, .TL or whatever you use as first -ms command.