Sadly I don’t know how to futz about with traps, I just haven’t gottenįirst I would point you to the manpage, but, we all know that manpages are a mess, so it might not be there. "groff/troff for Minimalist Document Complication". I suspect I'll need to redefine the -ms macro that controls the trap for footnotes.? But I haven't figured out which macro that is just yet. Are you very well-versed with -ms? In particular, right now I'm trying to figure out how to add one blank line of space in footnotes AFTER the horizontal line, but BEFORE the first footnote begins. But there's a couple of very small details that I'm finding difficult to crack. I've already got a reasonable imitation of the original document, which is fun and a bit rewarding. I'm using the -ms macro set, mostly because that's what Luke Smith demos in his videos so that's what I got started with. I formatted the original in MS Word using a template my school provided, so I have something to visually compare against. To practice, I'm trying to re-typeset a paper I wrote in school that follows the Chicago Manual of Style. I've also learned from this article on Linux journal and Luke Smith's YouTube playlist on groff. Mostly, I've been referring to this page on gnu.org. I've found a couple of resources that have been helpful. I didn't know about '\
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