jwp@larry.UUCP (Jeffrey W Percival) (10/18/88)
For the life of me, I can't get nroff/troff to skip lines at the top of a page. I have a feeling this is related to the distance to the top-of-page trap, but what do I (short of loading in dummy blank lines) to get .sp to work? -- Jeff Percival (jwp@larry.sal.wisc.edu)
jlo@elan.UUCP (Jeff Lo) (10/20/88)
In article <466@larry.UUCP> jwp@larry.UUCP (Jeffrey W Percival) writes: >For the life of me, I can't get nroff/troff to skip lines at the top of >a page. I have a feeling this is related to the distance to the >top-of-page trap, but what do I (short of loading in dummy blank lines) >to get .sp to work? >-- >Jeff Percival (jwp@larry.sal.wisc.edu) The macros are probably turning on no-space mode (.ns) in the top of page handling. This prevents a .sp request from having any effect. To get around this you need to use a .rs (restore spacing) request. You may also need a .br before the .rs. I have found that .br .rs .sp whatever always works. -- Jeff Lo ..!{ames,hplabs,uunet}!elan!jlo Elan Computer Group, Inc. (415) 322-2450
ray@vantage.UUCP (Ray Liere) (10/29/88)
We also had this problem with nroff.
Our solution: put a \& just before the .sp command.
(I seem to recall reading somewhere that nroff will ignore .sp commands
at the top of a page for a number of lines exceeding some number -- I
think it was 5 or 10. Anyway, I now can not of course find the quote.
But the tone, I recall, was as if this had been done on purpose ...)
Hope this helps.
(P.S. to Jeff Percival: we have been having trouble with our note
postings getting out -- if you see this, would you let me know via email?
Thanks.)
Ray Liere
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uucp: hplabs!hpfcla!hpubvwa!vantage!raykg@elan.UUCP (Ken Greer) (11/02/88)
From article <210010@vantage.UUCP>, by ray@vantage.UUCP (Ray Liere): > > Our solution: put a \& just before the .sp command. > I seem to recall reading somewhere that nroff will ignore .sp commands > at the top of a page for a number of lines exceeding some number -- I > think it was 5 or 10. You're in "no space" mode at the top of a page. To force out real blank lines you can use: .br .rs .sp <whatever> -- Ken Greer Elan Computer Group, Inc. {ames,hplabs,uunet}!elan!kg 415-322-2450