Self-follow-up:
1. Please ignore the double dot below at .DS C.
2. I found a workaround by putting .LH immediately before .bp.
Best,
Oliver.
On 09/05/2025 14:48, Oliver Corff via GNU roff typesetting system
discussion wrote:
Dear All,
I am afraid I miss a groff secret again.
For breaking
Hi Branden,
On 09/05/2025 14:59, G. Branden Robinson wrote:
When I format this document with groff Git trunk, I get a few
diagnostics.
---snip---
$ groff -ww -a -ms ATTIC/corff-early-bp.ms
troff:ATTIC/corff-early-bp.ms:1: warning: name '.DS' not defined
Sure, that's my fault, due to the extra
[CCing groff list because I bring up some project management details]
Hi Dave & Alex,
At 2025-05-09T15:14:57+0100, Dave Martin wrote:
> Should the one-line replacement statement in each file refer back to
> the CREDITS file?
>
> Also, nothing seems to say that anyone listed in CREDITS actually
>
At 2025-05-09T07:59:23-0500, G. Branden Robinson wrote:
> If I revise the document as follows, I get a display after the cover
> page material, but on the same page, then a page break as expected
> after the display.
Ah, I should point out that my corrected document doesn't work as
desired with st
Hi Oliver,
At 2025-05-09T14:48:19+0200, Oliver Corff via GNU roff typesetting
system discussion wrote:
> I am afraid I miss a groff secret again.
>
> For breaking pages, .bp works as expected if and only if there is text
> before.
>
> However, with the following start of my ms document, insertin
> However, with the following start of my ms document, inserting .bp between
> the title display and the first section heading does *not* break the page.
It is possible that the macro package sets no-space mode
after certain macros. No-space mode disables .bp, but
you can restore spacing with .
Dear All,
I am afraid I miss a groff secret again.
For breaking pages, .bp works as expected if and only if there is text
before.
However, with the following start of my ms document, inserting .bp
between the title display and the first section heading does *not* break
the page.
..DS C
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