On Monday, May 17, 2021 1:05 PM, James K. Lowden wrote > Does anyone how to decrease the top margin with mm macros? > > There is VM macro that is supposed to change it, however it > > has no effect on the top margin, when one wants to decrease > > it. Looks like the top margin can only be increased.
I made the same determination 35 years ago; seemed like a bug even then. On Monday, May 17, 2021 1:27 PM, Tadziu Hoffmann wrote [citing old MM manual] > To obtain more specialized page titles, the user may redefine > the .TP macro to cause the desired header processing. This is what I did, though my version is still based on AT&T roff, so it's not optimal for groff. I added (the unused) registers H and M to control the page header and top-of-page margins, respectively. I think I used default values of 0.35i and 1i. That MM version also had a humongous bottom margin, which could not be changed, so I similarly added registers F and B for the footer and text margins. Because the authors had apparently assumed that no one would ever need to change this, it took a bit of hackery to get the bottom-of-page stuff to work. Strange that one should need to resort to this sorta stuff ... Jeff Conrad
