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From: ray@vantage.UUCP (Ray Liere)
Newsgroups: comp.text
Subject: Re: nroff/troff -ms vertical space
Message-ID: <210010@vantage.UUCP>
Date: 28 Oct 88 20:47:09 GMT
Article-I.D.: vantage.210010
References: <466@larry.UUCP>
Organization: Vantage Consulting and Research Corporation
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We also had this problem with nroff.

Our solution: put a \& just before the .sp command.

(I seem to recall reading somewhere that nroff will ignore .sp commands
at the top of a page for a number of lines exceeding some number -- I
think it was 5 or 10.  Anyway, I now can not of course find the quote.
But the tone, I recall, was as if this had been done on purpose ...)

Hope this helps.

(P.S. to Jeff Percival: we have been having trouble with our note
postings getting out -- if you see this, would you let me know via email?
Thanks.)

Ray Liere
mail: Vantage Consulting and Research Corporation
      1017 Molalla Avenue, Suite 3
      Oregon City, Oregon 97045, USA
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