On Fri, Jan 04, 2008 at 04:10:09PM -0000, Ted Harding wrote: > On 04-Jan-08 15:24:31, Joerg van den Hoff wrote: > > I thought I had this solved but cannot find it again (neither > > in my stuff nor in the docs): > > > > `.po' requests (and PO register in `ms' which I actually use) > > do take effect only on the next page, i.e. after page break. > > > > question: how to enforce some page offset on the very first > > page without either editing the default value in the groff > > macros (very ugly) or some kludge such as starting the document > > with > > > > .pn 0 > > .bp > > .\"here goes the actual document starting with page no. 1 > > > > I seem to recall that somehow one can enforce a pseudo page > > break so that e.g. the page offset is honored without actually > > emitting a page. or is this wrong? > > > > joerg > > It should work in ms macros if you set it before you do anything > else which would tigger a pafe transition. > > For example: > > .po 2i > .nr PO 2i > .LP > Your first text ... > > You can see that this works by changing "2i" to say "4i". > > The first page does not in reality start until the ".LP" > is encountered. > > The situation could be different if you have a private set > of macros (or some other set as well as the ms macros) > which are read in before input processing starts, and > somewhere in those occurs a transition to the first page.
ted, yes, thanks. it was something of that kind. stupid me... best regads, joerg > > Hoping this helps, > Ted.
