rwr@halley.UUCP (Rick Ramke) (07/10/90)
I'm no troff macro-writing expert, as will quickly become apparent. Can someone help? We use a modified version of the standard an macros (/usr/lib/macros/an, which are modified versions of the ms macros?) to process our manual page source files. I want to add footnotes to some man pages. Adding the .FS and .FE macros to the macro file did not work (presumably because of dependencies that I couldn't figure out). The closest I've been able to come is the following, which uses the .wh request: .wh -.5i RR \" Set trap .5-inch from bottom of page; call RR. .de RR \" Define RR macro. .in 0 \" Don't indent. .ds zz "The footnote. \" Define a string called zz. \\*(zz \" Call the string. .. \" End the macro definition. It almost works, but the string always gets written at the top of the next page. I want it to print .25-inch from the bottom of the current page. Any suggestions? Thanks.