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?