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

[Peter Schaffter]

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.

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Peter Schaffter
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