> I am trying to format three columns per page using the ms macros. > However, the first item on the first page in the first column > gets printed lower than the first items in columns two and three, > yet page 2 has the tops of all the columns at the same vertical > position. I'm using groff 1.20.1.
There's a call to DEVTAG in the definition of @MC (to which MC is aliased) which is responsible for this, though I can't at the moment guess what function this could serve (ultimately DEVTAG is a wrapper around tag (which I couldn't find in groff(7), but which probably works similar to \X)). I'm guessing this call leaves an empty something in the output stream. Perhaps the call should be confined to a separate environment.
