Thanks! The trick with TP macro works.
Best regards, Michał Kruszewski Sent with ProtonMail Secure Email. ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ On Monday, May 17, 2021 10:26 PM, Tadziu Hoffmann <hoffm...@usm.uni-muenchen.de> 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. > > This is possibly a bug. In groff's mm, the option -Tdoes > set pgheader-size, but this does not appear to be used in > the page header macro, only pgextra-header-size. > > As a workaround, you could use the advice from an old MM manual > (http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/altos/3068/690-15844-001_Altos_Unix_System_V_Documenters_Workbench_Vol_2_Jul85.pdf), > which says: > > The .VM (vertical margin) macro allows the user to specify > additional space at the top and bottom of the page. This > space precedes the page header and follows the page footer. > > and also: > > Default spacing at the top of the page may be decreased by > redefining .TP. > > and: > > Generalized Top-of-Page Processing > > Note: This part is intended only for users accustomed > to writing formatter macros. > > During header processing, MM invokes two user-definable macros: > > - The .TP (top of page) macro is invoked in the environment > (refer to .ev request) of the header. > > - The .PX is a page header user-exit macro that is invoked > (without arguments) when the normal environment has been > restored and with the "no-space" mode already in effect. > > ... > > To obtain more specialized page titles, the user may redefine > the .TP macro to cause the desired header processing. > > So, if you define > > .de TP > .. > > there will be no space at all at the top, and > > .de TP > .sp > .tl \\*(}t > .sp > .. > > will give you three lines of top margin, with the default > header in the middle. >
