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Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2007 23:39:49 +0100
From: Martin Neubauer <m.ne@gmx.net>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] troff ignoring .eo/.ec after first time
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ms(6) says:

	Many nroff and troff
	requests are unsafe in conjunction with this package, but
	the following requests may be used with impunity after the
	first .PP: `.bp', `.br', `.sp', `.ls', `.na'.

Maybe this helps,
	Martin

* Pietro Gagliardi (pietro10@mac.com) wrote:
> Hello. Try this:
> 
> 	tbl /n/sources/contrib/pietro/plan9prog.ms | troff -ms | page
> 
> On about the third page, some code begins, but at the print()  
> statement at the end there is some strangeness. If you look inside  
> the .ms file, there are some .eo and .ec requests. .eo turns off \x  
> and .ec turns it back on. But why is it ignored after that first  
> page, which works correctly?