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From: rupley@cs.arizona.edu (John Rupley)
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Subject: Re: inserting blank pages in troff documents
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Date: 6 Jun 91 17:20:10 GMT
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In article <1922@richsun.cpg.trs.reuter.com> doj@cpg.trs.reuter.com (Dave James) writes:
>How to insert blank pages in troff? I use an escaped space on the
>blank page, so troff thinks there is real text, thus actually
>"break paging" the 2nd time.. e.g.,
>
>	.bp
>	\<SPACE_HERE>
>	.bp

I believe the request was for a method to get an empty page after the
current page was filled.  With mm macros the following should work (I
haven't tested it):

\" In header
.nr De 1
.nr Df 4
	text....
.DF
\" For a "blank" page, with header, footer, and number
.DE
	more text....

Other ways to do it, but this seems pretty simple.

John Rupley