35 years later and it is still there.
Groff is great, much easier and more coherent than Latex.
There is almost no need to google "How to {anything}".
However, the path from the users feedback to the updates is extremely winding.If fixing bugs or updating was as simple as making a PR on the GitHub/GitLab it would probably be much more popular. Best regards, Michał Kruszewski Sent with ProtonMail Secure Email. ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ On Monday, May 17, 2021 11:30 PM, Jeff Conrad <jeff_con...@msn.com> wrote: > 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
