Labels:text | screenshot | black and white | font OCR: NAME ms - text formatting macros SYNOPSIS nroff -ms [ options ] file ... DESCRIPTION This package of nroff (1) macro definitions provides a formatting facility for various styles of articles, theses, and books. All external -ms macros are defined below. Note that this particular -ms macro package is a subset of the complete -ms package since nroff(1) is not quite up to it yet. Still, it supports most of what is normally used, including the table of contents macros. Some nroff requests may be unsafe in conjunction with this package However, the first four requests below may be used with impunity after initialization, and the last two may be used even before initialization: Command Description bp .br begin new page break output line insert n spacing lines ce n center next n lines .Is n line spacing: n=1 single, n=2 double space .na no alignment of right margin Font changes with \fF are also allowed; for example, '\f Iword\fR' will italicize word. REQUESTS The following requests are recognized: Macro Initial Break? Explanation Name Value Reset? AB x y begin abstract; if x=no don't label abstract .AE y end abstract AI author's institution, centered .AU .B x author's name, centered embolden x; if no x, switch to boldface .I x italicize x; if no x, switch to italics . IP x y,y indented paragraph, with hanging tag x .LP .NH x y ,! left (block) paragraph. 4,4 numbered header; x=level, x=0 resets .PP .QP y,y paragraph with first line indented y, quoted paragraph (indented, shorter ) .R x .RE return to Roman font .RS y,y end level of relative indentation 5n y,y right shift: start level of relative indent .SH y,y .TL section header, no numbering y title, centered .XP y,y extended paragraph (biblio entry) .XS p begin index entry, p = page .XA p another index entry, p = page . XE y end index entry .PX y print index (ignored) REGISTERS There are currently no user controlled registers in this implementation. The internal registers used are: A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, J, K, M, P, Q, R, X, 2. Here is a list of strings available in -ms; they may be used anywhere in the text: Name String's Function \*(DW weekday \*(MO month (month of the year) \*(DY day (current date) quote (" in nroff) * unquote (" in nroff) dash ( -- in nroff) In addition, - ms uses the following strings internally: CR, LF, RF, Dy, Da, Yr, dY, TM, DA, CT, XX. EXAMPLES For an example, see the test files ( *. ms) included in the distribution. FILES \lib\tmac\tmac .s BUGS Probably zillions, especially considering it is so incomplete. However, it is useful (better than nothing at all). I have used this package extensively at home to write reports for work. The results were nearly 100% compatible with Unix (BSD). No support for displays and keeps, tables, boxed text, multicolumn, other modes (e.g. thesis mode), footnotes, and beginning/end page traps. Indented paragraph with tag puts the tag on its own line regardless how long it is. AUTHOR Written for nroff v1. 10p5 and manpager v1.41 for for Atari ST (TOS) and Minix by Bill Rosenkranz. net : rosenkra@convex .com CIS: 71460,17 GENIE : W . ROSENKRANZ VERSION ms.7 1.10p5 91/2/24
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