wcs@ho95b.UUCP (Bill Stewart) (11/29/84)
A user whose name I've lost posted this problem: > When I use a .DS - .DE sequence, the following text gets > messed up. The text becomes single spaced and footnotes > get printed one word per line. The messed-up footnotes are new to me. However, the single-spacing is an old, well-fixed problem. NEVER USE THE NROFF COMMAND .ls 2 WITH THE MM MACRO PACKAGE!!! (-> Assumes System III or System V or UNIX 5.***) The clean way to double-space your output is to use the .S macro. It's well described in the mm documentation, but the basic syntax is .S point-size vertical-spacing Where point-size and vertical spacing can be numbers (in points), or can be P Use previous value C Use current value D Use default value The default is usually .S 10 12 - to double-space, use .S C 24 which will work whether you're in nroff or troff. .S C 18 gives 1-and-a-half space, which is nice on some printers. Unfortunately, in System II and System V Release 1, the -rC4 and -rC3 command line arguments (for drafts) use the .ls 2 instead of the .S macro, so they mess up after the first .DS - .DE. This is a well-known bug, and they've promised to fix it. Bill Stewart, AT&T Bell Labs, Holmdel NJ. -- Bill Stewart AT&T Bell Labs, Holmdel NJ 1-201-949-0705 ...!ihnp4!ho95b!wcs