Re: [Groff] question about .rs and .nop

[Ulrich Lauther]

On Mon, Aug 26, 2013 at 12:41:53PM -0400, Peter Schaffter wrote:
> 
> I don't know how ms handles this, but with mom, use the ADD_SPACE
> macro after NEWPAGE.
> 
> .NEWPAGE
> .ADD_SPACE 5v
> text2
> 
> ADD_SPACE exists precisely to solve the problem you're encountering.
> It's documented in section 5.3.8 of the docs,
> 
Yes, I had seen this.
But I wanted to write a macro MyNewPage, that does exactly the same
as NEWPAGE but does not leave me in nospace mode.
When I call ADD_SPACE for this purpose, I need to give an amount of 
spacing. 
.ADD_SPACE 0v   does'nt work
.ADD_SPACE 1v   works, but is different from NEWSPACE without nospace
                mode (one more blank line).
.ADD_SPACE 1u   works, but might be considered ugly.

Instead I use now:

.MAC MyNewPage END
.NEWPAGE
\&
.br
.sp -1v+1u
.END

which also is a bit ugly.

Any suggestion for a clean solution?
Nice would be a parameter to NEWPAGE that suppresses the nospace behaviour.

BTW, I never understood why the formatting macro packages don´t like
the user to put space at the top of their pages.

Cheers,

  ulrich lauther