Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-tis!ames!elan!jlo
From: jlo@elan.UUCP (Jeff Lo)
Newsgroups: comp.text
Subject: Re: nroff/troff -ms vertical space
Keywords: nroff troff ms
Message-ID: <371@elan.UUCP>
Date: 19 Oct 88 22:44:46 GMT
References: <466@larry.UUCP>
Reply-To: jlo@elan.UUCP (Jeff Lo)
Organization: Elan Computer Group, Inc., Palo Alto, CA
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In article <466@larry.UUCP> jwp@larry.UUCP (Jeffrey W Percival) writes:
>For the life of me, I can't get nroff/troff to skip lines at the top of
>a page.  I have a feeling this is related to the distance to the
>top-of-page trap, but what do I (short of loading in dummy blank lines)
>to get .sp to work?
>-- 
>Jeff Percival (jwp@larry.sal.wisc.edu)

The macros are probably turning on no-space mode (.ns) in the top of
page handling. This prevents a .sp request from having any effect. To
get around this you need to use a .rs (restore spacing) request. You
may also need a .br before the .rs. I have found that

	.br
	.rs
	.sp whatever

always works.
-- 
Jeff Lo
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