On Mon, Aug 26, 2013, Ulrich Lauther wrote:
> I cannot reproduce the problem with plain groff, but came across it when
> using macro packages like mm or mom.
>
> This demonstrates the problem:
>
> .PRINTSTYLE TYPESET
> .HEADER_LEFT "top"
> .START
> text1
> .NEWPAGE
> .br
> .rs
> .br
> .sp 5
> text2
> .NEWPAGE
> text3
> .NEWPAGE
> foo
> .br
> .sp 5
> text4
>
> Put above into file "test" and process with
>
> groff -mom -Tps test > test.ps; gv test.ps
>
> and see, how text2 and text3 are placed with the same distance to the header
> rule.
> For text4, groff finally honors the preceeding .sp 5
I don't know how ms handles this, but with mom, use the ADD_SPACE
macro after NEWPAGE.
.NEWPAGE
.ADD_SPACE 5v
text2
ADD_SPACE exists precisely to solve the problem you're encountering.
It's documented in section 5.3.8 of the docs,
"Changing basic type and formatting parameters after START"
=>Inserting space at the top of a new page
=>ADD_SPACE
It's not easy to find in the docs because it's hard to classify. In
the Quick Reference Guide, it's under "Utilities" in the "Document
processing macros" section.
--
Peter Schaffter
http://www.schaffter.ca
