On Thu, Sep 04, 2014, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: > >Date: Thu, 4 Sep 2014 12:31:09 +0200 (CEST) > >From: Carsten Kunze <carsten.ku...@arcor.de> > >To: groff@gnu.org > > > >You could try > > > >.mk A > > > >and on the next page > > > >.sp |\nA > > > >(have not tested that.) > > In UNIX Text Processing, p. 462, the advice is > > .mk Q > .sp |\nQu > > Neither your form nor theirs (with "u" at the end) work. > I guess this is because this feature is used > to affect vertical position on a single page, > not across pages.
That's correct. The absolute position indicator means "distance from page top". There's no way to .sp or .rt to a previous page. -- Peter Schaffter http://www.schaffter.ca