Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!ulysses!hector!ekrell
From: ekrell@hector.UUCP (Eduardo Krell)
Newsgroups: comp.text
Subject: Re: nroff/mm problem
Keywords: .SP .sp top-of-page
Message-ID: <10534@ulysses.homer.nj.att.com>
Date: 23 Aug 88 18:30:07 GMT
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In article <372@seila.UUCP> don@seila.UUCP writes:
>this is driving us crazy:
>
>how do you force nroff (using the mm macro package)
>to leave n spaces at the top of a page?  .sp and .SP seem
>to have no effect.

.sp at the top of a page doesn't do anything. You have to force
it to output some text. I do

\ 
.sp <whatever>

There's a space after the backslash. That forces a space to be printed
and the .sp will now be honored.

I've converted to LaTeX years ago, but I still remember some of these
terrible troff kludges.
    
Eduardo Krell                   AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, NJ

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