On Thu, Nov 11, 2021, Steve Izma wrote: > On Wed, Nov 10, 2021 at 08:50:29PM -0500, Douglas McIlroy wrote: > > Subject: Re: .SPACE in mom > > > > .sp |d, where d is some vertical distance, provides that much > > space from the top of the page above any immediately following > > text. The nominal height of such text is the line spacing, > > \n[.v]. > > While I think that this helps to clarify the use of "|" in .sp, I > suggest that it's important to show that ".sp |d" is essentially > a "vertical move to" instruction.
Reflecting on this, I feel Steve is right--all the more reason to get .sp |d (or some modification thereof) to behave as such: "move to the (precise, unambiguous, and unqualified) vertical position given as an argument." -- Peter Schaffter https://www.schaffter.ca
