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From: ekrell@hector.UUCP (Eduardo Krell)
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Subject: Re: nroff problem
Keywords: .SP .sp top-of-page
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Date: 23 Aug 88 22:35:14 GMT
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In article <1344@ucsfcca.ucsf.edu> brianc@daedalus.ucsf.edu (Brian Colfer) writes:

>Won't work for top of "mm" pages because a command, I forget which
>one, disables spacing at the top of a page.

The point is that "\<space>" forces a space to be printed, so that the
.sp following it IS NOT at the top of a page. Get it?
    
Eduardo Krell                   AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, NJ

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