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From: hapke@urbsdc.Urbana.Gould.COM
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Subject: Re: me footnotes - a "drifting problem"
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Date: 15 Apr 88 21:59:00 GMT
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Nf-From: urbsdc.Urbana.Gould.COM!hapke    Apr 15 15:59:00 1988


Footnotes will "drift" in -me when you use nroff because of the way the $s
macro is coded.  Here it is:

	.de $s			\" $$$ footnote separator
	\l'2i'
	.if n \
	.	sp 0.3
	..

The .sp 0.3 command produces half-line motions in the nroff output.  Unless
your printer can handle these, the pagination is thrown off eventually.

You can recode $s to use .br instead of .sp 0.3, or you can try piping the
nroff output through 'col' before you print it.

Warren Hapke, Gould CSD-Urbana
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