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From: kg@elan.UUCP (Ken Greer)
Newsgroups: comp.text
Subject: Re: nroff/troff -ms vertical space
Message-ID: <373@elan.UUCP>
Date: 1 Nov 88 22:56:38 GMT
References: <210010@vantage.UUCP>
Organization: Elan Computer Group, Inc., Palo Alto, CA
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From article <210010@vantage.UUCP>, by ray@vantage.UUCP (Ray Liere):
> 
> 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.

You're in "no space" mode at the top of a page. To force out real blank lines
you can use:
		.br
		.rs
		.sp <whatever>
-- 
Ken Greer
Elan Computer Group, Inc.
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