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?