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- From: etxmesa@eos.ericsson.se (Michael Salmon)
- Subject: Re: nroff, troff
- Message-ID: <1992Sep2.075211.5100@ericsson.se>
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- Reply-To: etxmesa@eos.ericsson.se (Michael Salmon)
- Organization: Ericsson Telecom AB
- References: <1992Sep1.212608.17434@umbc3.umbc.edu>
- Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1992 07:52:11 GMT
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- In article <1992Sep1.212608.17434@umbc3.umbc.edu>, grabenst@umbc4.umbc.edu (Mr. Michael Grabenstein; ACS (GUEST)) writes:
- |> I am tring to get nroff or troff to paginate a textfile.
- |> I just need to center a few things, indent under the headings.
- |> Simple stuff, I have looked into the macros me and ms, but have
- |> not had any luck. The commands I am getting in the man don't seem
- |> to do the same thing on the screen (or printer). I know O'Riely
- |> makes a a book about this, but I did not want to have to buy it
- |> (or read it). The man page I get on nroff says nothing about its
- |> text commands, just its command line arguments. I am using a Sun
- |> (SunOS 4.1.1) and printing to a DecScript laser printer. The Dec
- |> 5000 is also my print spooler. any suggestions anyone?
- |> Thanks!
-
- You should have a document entitled "Formatting documents" in your Sun
- documentation or AnswerBook. There you will find descriptions of the
- various macro packages along with tbl and eqn. There are also man
- pages for the macro packages. The reason why you don't get info on
- {n,t}roff in the man pages is that it's not really intended for users
- to use, it is the assembly language of formatting.
-
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- Michael Salmon
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