On Fri, Sep 05, 2014 at 08:18:55PM +0000, Bjarni Ingi Gislason wrote: > On Thu, Sep 04, 2014 at 11:25:22AM -0400, Mike Bianchi wrote: > > [...] > > > > Oddly, this works as expected. > > .br > > .rs > > .nr Q \n[.ns] > > .sp |0.5i > > Q = \n[Q] > > > > Prints > > Q = 0 > > 0.5 inch down from the top edge. > > > > > > So there is some odd relationship between no-space and whether the line > > buffer > > has been flushed? > > > > What is going on? > > You are not informed. Read at least the first paragraph of chapter > "3.� Page control" in the troff reference at "cm.bell-labs.com" (ftp or > http), file "/cm/cs/cstr/54.ps.gz".
Thanks! Yep. There it is, in black and white. The good news is the behavior observed _is_ documented. I can even imagine why that is the proper behavior. I've been using troff since the mid 1970s, but I don't know if I would have ever found that if I were looking for it. So tell me Bjarni, how did you _know_ that was there? -- Mike Bianchi Foveal Systems 973 822-2085 mbian...@foveal.com http://www.AutoAuditorium.com http://www.FovealMounts.com
