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 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) 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?

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