Re: [Groff] .mk/.rt not work across a page?

[Bjarni Ingi Gislason]

On Thu, Sep 04, 2014 at 11:25:22AM -0400, Mike Bianchi wrote:
> [...]
> 
> Oddly, this works as expected.
>       .br
>       .rs
>       .nr Q \n[.ns]
>       .sp |0.5i
>       Q = \n[Q]
> 
> Prints
>       Q = 0
> 0.5 inch down from the top edge.
> 
> 
> So there is some odd relationship between no-space and whether the line buffer
> has been flushed?
> 
> What is going on?

  You are not informed.  Read at least the first paragraph of chapter 
"3.  Page control" in the troff reference at "cm.bell-labs.com" (ftp or
http), file "/cm/cs/cstr/54.ps.gz".

-- 
Bjarni I. Gislason