RE: [Groff] Multi-column format with ms macros

[Ted Harding]

On 11-Mar-09 07:04:04, Kurt Kehler wrote:
> I am trying to format three columns per page using the ms macros.
> However, the first item on the first page in the first column
> gets printed lower than the first items in columns two and three,
> yet page 2 has the tops of all the columns at the same vertical
> position.  I'm using groff 1.20.1.
> 
> I have attached the source file and the postscipt output of:
> groff -ms source >source.ps
> 
> I must be overlooking something but I can't find it.
> 
> Thanks,
> Kurt Kehler

I ran

  groff -ms source > source.ps

on your source file (unedited) and did not observe the result which
you got. The very first column on the first page was exactly aligned,
horizontally (i.e. at the same vertical position) with the other
two columns.

This was groff 1.18.1 on Debian Etch.

So I think that what you observed should not happen, but I cannot
think why it did!

Ted.

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