Hi Kurt,
> The context is that I've got a part of my text that needs to stay
> together
Are you aware of `Displays and keeps' in groff_ms(7)
> and it is being split across columns, so I need to switch the column
> before that part starts.
Specific to groff's -ms from peering at the internals is
.br
.pg@bottom
> I have used a .br and .ne X, where X is guesstimate at the lines
> needed, but wondered if there was a cleaner approach.
Put the keep-together content into a diversion and then say you need the
height of that diversion. But see Keeps above.
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Cheers, Ralph.
