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From: morrell@hpsal2.HP.COM (Michael Morrell)
Newsgroups: comp.text
Subject: Re: nroff/mm problem
Message-ID: <2610011@hpsal2.HP.COM>
Date: 23 Aug 88 23:31:07 GMT
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Organization: HP System Architecture Lab, Cupertino
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/ hpsal2:comp.text / don@seila.UUCP (Don Kossman) / 11:22 pm  Aug 21, 1988 /
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...)

what are we doing wrong?

-- 
Don Kossman, SEI Information Technology, Los Angeles
usenet:  ...sun!tsunami!seila!don, ...uunet!mahendo!jplgodo!seila!don
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The Page Header macros in mm use the ".ns" request, which inhibits spacing
until some text is output.  If you precede the .sp or .SP with a ".rs"
request, this will restore spacing and all should be well.

   Michael