Ulrich -- On Mon, Nov 08, 2021, Ulrich Lauther wrote: > I know that .SPACE |<some distance> moves me to some distance from > the top of the page, though I cannot find this knowledge in mom's > documentation.
It's in the entry for 'sp' in the groff info manual. > A naive person (like me) would hope, that a negative argument > would bring me to some distance from the bottom of the page; that, > of course, is not the case. > > My solution looks like this: > > .nr tmp \n[#PAGE_LENGTH]-\n[#B_MARGIN]-3c > .SP |\n[tmp]u > > Question: > Is there a simpler or more elegant way? No. It's the tried and true method, clunky though it is. The only groff request that uses a negative argument to mean "from the bottom of the page" is 'wh', which sets page traps. > Suggestion: > Mention ".SPACE" also in "4.7 Vertical Movements" together with an > explanation of "|" and maybe a hint, how to navigate to a place > relative to the page bottom. A "See also" in 4.7 with mention of | in the "Experts" note to SPACE ought to do the trick. I'll update the docs. I don't think "how to navigate to a place relative to the page bottom" belongs in the mom documentation. It's covered in the info 'sp' entry. Cheers. -- Peter Schaffter https://www.schaffter.ca
