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From: brianc@daedalus (Brian Colfer)
Newsgroups: comp.text
Subject: Re: nroff/mm problem
Keywords: .SP .sp top-of-page
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Date: 23 Aug 88 15:38:33 GMT
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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...)

Have you tried redefining .TP?
I have used this method many times... I am less certain about the
.VM macro but it probably would work also.

.TP has been in mm for a very long time? I don't know about .VM.
I'm using DWB2.0 and these techniques are in sections 3.4.[7,9]
"Top and Bottom (Vertical) Margins" and "Generalized Top-of-Page
Processing".  

>
>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.  
>
.TP will work...

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