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ROFF documentation
This is a transliteration of the text formatting program on Kernighan
& Plauger's SOFTWARE TOOLS, with some modifications to take advantage
of the power of C. If the summary of dot commands below isn't enough
for you, see the book.
Most commands can accept arguments. If the argument is preceded by a
plus or minus sign then the current value of the indicated attribute
is changed by that amount. For example, the command .ls 2 sets the
line spacing to 2, while the command .ls +2 increases the
currently-set line spacing by 2 lines.
command break? default action
------- ----- ------- ------
.bp yes +1 begin next page
.br yes cause break
.ce n yes 1 center next n lines
.fi yes start fill mode
.fo no empty footer title
.he no empty header title
.in n no 0 indent n spaces
.ls n no 1 set line spacing = n
.nf yes stop fill mode
.pl n no 66 set page length = n
.rm n no 60 set right margin
.sp n yes 1 space down n lines
.ti n yes 0 temp indent n spaces
.ul n no 1 underline next n lines
A break stops the filling of the current line. Breaks are needed
between paragraphs. Lines containing nothing but blanks always cause
one blank line to be output. A line which starts with a tab or blank
causes the temporary indent setting to be set to the number of
beginning spaces on that line. Note that this feature overrides any
.ti setting in effect.
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