> \h'7c' > \v'0.5c-\n[nl]u' > FRANCE > .br > 0001 > .br "\h" and "\v" are for *local* motion within a line. As soon as you issue a ".br", you will be returned to the beginning of the last output line (the place from which the "\v" and "\h" was counted) plus one v vertically.
> I am trying to move vertically up before adding some > paragraphs at the new location. The best solution in this case is to move horizontally with ".in" and/or ".po", and vertically with ".sp". Note that you can space vertically to an absolute position on the page by specifying the position with a "bar" character. For example, ".sp |3c" puts the baseline of the text at 3 cm plus 1 v from the top of the page. (This implied "plus 1 v" is so that ".sp |0" doesn't lose any text but instead puts the text below the top of the page.) .sp 3c hello .br world .br .po 12c .sp |0c foo .br bar
