* [9fans] troff ms .P1 .P2 usage
@ 2011-09-11 5:21 Jeff Sickel
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From: Jeff Sickel @ 2011-09-11 5:21 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs
Aha, it took my a little poking at the troff ms macros to realize that .P2 accepts a parameter as defined in the line:
.if \\n(.$=0 .ne \\n(dnu \" -\\n(DVu
By adding a parameter you can prevent the forced request for vertical space.
.P1
this is some long text
default could force page eject
ignore with zero
.P2 0
This may not be good form, but it does help prevent awkward dead space when adding program listing segments.
-jas
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