Re: [Groff] Apparent weirdness with -ms's PO and LL

[Jorgen Grahn]

On Fri Feb  7 06:00:51 2003, address@hidden wrote:
...
> 
> Just having the .po request in the file is sufficient,
> and one has to do it anyway if one wants the page
> offset to take place immediately. That's probably why
> the bug has stayed under the radar for so long: ".nr
> PO xx" and ".po xx" are usually paired anyway.

Just did a quick test with Solaris {n,t}roff, and setting PO at the very
beginning of the document *does* affect all pages (didn't check the cover
though).

So there should be a class of -ms documents out there which don't pair PO and
.po -- maybe they just want slightly more narrow pages, centered on the paper.
Apparently, these will not render as expected using groff.

I wish I had the guts to provide a patch...

/Jörgen

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