Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!pacbell!pbhyf!kjk
From: kjk@pbhyf.PacBell.COM (Ken Keirnan)
Newsgroups: comp.text
Subject: Re: nroff/mm problem
Keywords: .SP .sp top-of-page
Message-ID: <3828@pbhyf.PacBell.COM>
Date: 23 Aug 88 16:04:03 GMT
References: <372@seila.UUCP>
Reply-To: kjk@pbhyf.PacBell.COM (Ken Keirnan)
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Organization: Pacific * Bell, San Ramon, CA
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In article <372@seila.UUCP> don@seila.UUCP (Don Kossman) 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.  we've RTFM (several of them) and have
>had no luck.  we are using page headers and footers and i
>think that's what's causing the problem, but don't know
>how to solve it (beyond inserting an empty table with the
>right number of lines...)
>
>environment is ultrix 2.0; i've tried another mm macro
>package (sco xenix 2.2) and had the same problem;
>i'm pretty sure both packages are pre-DWB 2.0.  
>
>what are we doing wrong?
>


Don, I'm not sure about about pre-DWB2.0 mm macro packages, but in
2.0 you want the ".VM" macro (vertical margin).

The usage is:		.VM [top] [bottom]

where "top" and "bottom" are given in vertical line spaces.  A value
of zero (0) for either adds no additional space.  By the way, I
discovered a bug in the VM macro (at least the version I have) that
caused the spacing to be in device units instead of line spaces.
the last line of the macro was

			.(E 5 0\\$2 \}

but should be

			.(E 5 0\\$2v \}

I hope this is useful to you.

Ken Keirnan
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Ken Keirnan - Pacific Bell - {att,bellcore,sun,ames,pyramid}!pacbell!pbhyf!kjk
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