nroff/troff "ms" macro.

[Randall S. Becker]

While perusing through a description of the "ms" macro for nroff/troff
under the title "Typing Documents on the UNIX System: Using the -ms
Macros with Troff and Nroff" by Lesk, I came across the macro "QP"
which supposedly allows one to enter a Quoted Paragraph. Since this
happened to be exactly what I needed I tried that command. It proceeded
to cause the paragraph following the one "QPed" to be too wide.
I should mention that aside from the brief mention of QP I have found no
other mention of QP in that or any other document. It did not even appear
in the command summary at the end of the document. 
	A possible correction for this problem is to place a ".QE" after you 
paragraph,but I haven't a clue as to why this works. Does anyone have any 
idea of what is going on with the obscure "QP" paragraph?

Randy Becker
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