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Re: [Groff] .mk/.rt not work across a page?
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Peter Schaffter |
Subject: |
Re: [Groff] .mk/.rt not work across a page? |
Date: |
Thu, 4 Sep 2014 10:54:05 -0400 |
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Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) |
On Thu, Sep 04, 2014, Anton Shterenlikht wrote:
> >Date: Thu, 4 Sep 2014 12:31:09 +0200 (CEST)
> >From: Carsten Kunze <address@hidden>
> >To: address@hidden
> >
> >You could try
> >
> >.mk A
> >
> >and on the next page
> >
> >.sp |\nA
> >
> >(have not tested that.)
>
> In UNIX Text Processing, p. 462, the advice is
>
> .mk Q
> .sp |\nQu
>
> Neither your form nor theirs (with "u" at the end) work.
> I guess this is because this feature is used
> to affect vertical position on a single page,
> not across pages.
That's correct. The absolute position indicator means "distance
from page top". There's no way to .sp or .rt to a previous page.
--
Peter Schaffter
http://www.schaffter.ca
Re: [Groff] .mk/.rt not work across a page?, Ralph Corderoy, 2014/09/04