Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!cbmvax!vu-vlsi!dsinc!syd
From: syd@dsinc.UUCP (Syd Weinstein)
Newsgroups: comp.text
Subject: Re: nroff/mm problem
Keywords: .SP .sp top-of-page
Message-ID: <432@dsinc.UUCP>
Date: 25 Aug 88 01:09:22 GMT
References: <372@seila.UUCP>
Reply-To: syd@dsinc.UUCP (Syd Weinstein)
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Organization: Datacomp Systems, Inc., Huntingdon Valley, PA 19006
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At top of page, nroff/troff set a ignore space flag to prevent
accidental spaces when a page break is encountered.  As per the
nroff/troff reference manual, the .rs command (restore spacing)
turns off this flag and allows spacing at the top of a page.

Thus
.rs
.SP space

works correctly.
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