On Thu, Sep 04, 2014 at 11:25:22AM -0400, Mike Bianchi wrote: > [...] > > Oddly, this works as expected. > .br > .rs > .nr Q \n[.ns] > .sp |0.5i > Q = \n[Q] > > Prints > Q = 0 > 0.5 inch down from the top edge. > > > So there is some odd relationship between no-space and whether the line buffer > has been flushed? > > What is going on?
You are not informed. Read at least the first paragraph of chapter "3. Page control" in the troff reference at "cm.bell-labs.com" (ftp or http), file "/cm/cs/cstr/54.ps.gz". -- Bjarni I. Gislason