• 1 Introduction
  • 1.1 Background
  • 1.2 What Is groff?
  • 1.3 groff Capabilities
  • 1.4 Macro Packages
  • 1.5 Preprocessors
  • 1.6 Output Devices
  • 1.7 Installation
  • 1.8 Conventions Used in This Manual
  • 1.9 Credits
• 2 Invoking groff
  • 2.1 Options
  • 2.2 Environment
  • 2.3 Macro Directories
  • 2.4 Font Directories
  • 2.5 Paper Format
  • 2.6 Invocation Examples
• 3 Tutorial for Macro Users
  • 3.1 Basics
  • 3.2 Common Features
    • 3.2.1 Paragraphs
    • 3.2.2 Sections and Chapters
    • 3.2.3 Headers and Footers
    • 3.2.4 Page Layout
    • 3.2.5 Displays and Keeps
    • 3.2.6 Footnotes and Endnotes
    • 3.2.7 Table of Contents
    • 3.2.8 Indexing
    • 3.2.9 Document Formats
    • 3.2.10 Columnation
    • 3.2.11 Font and Size Changes
    • 3.2.12 Predefined Text
    • 3.2.13 Preprocessor Support
    • 3.2.14 Configuration and Customization
• 4 Macro Packages
  • 4.1 man
    • 4.1.1 Optional man extensions
      • Custom headers and footers
      • Ultrix-specific man macros
      • Simple example
  • 4.2 mdoc
  • 4.3 me
  • 4.4 mm
  • 4.5 mom
  • 4.6 ms
    • 4.6.1 Introduction
      • 4.6.1.1 Basic information
    • 4.6.2 Document Structure
    • 4.6.3 Document Control Settings
      • Margin settings
      • Titles (headers, footers)
      • Text settings
      • Paragraph settings
      • Heading settings
      • Footnote settings
      • Display settings
      • Other settings
    • 4.6.4 Document Description Macros
    • 4.6.5 Body Text
      • 4.6.5.1 Text settings
      • 4.6.5.2 Typographical symbols
      • 4.6.5.3 Paragraphs
      • 4.6.5.4 Headings
      • 4.6.5.5 Typeface and decoration
      • 4.6.5.6 Lists
      • 4.6.5.7 Indented regions
      • 4.6.5.8 Keeps, boxed keeps, and displays
      • 4.6.5.9 Tables, figures, equations, and references
      • 4.6.5.10 Footnotes
      • 4.6.5.11 Language and localization
    • 4.6.6 Page layout
      • 4.6.6.1 Headers and footers
      • 4.6.6.2 Tab stops
      • 4.6.6.3 Margins
      • 4.6.6.4 Multiple columns
      • 4.6.6.5 Creating a table of contents
    • 4.6.7 Differences from AT&T ms
      • 4.6.7.1 Unix Version 7 ms macros not implemented by groff ms
    • 4.6.8 Legacy Features
      • AT&T accent mark strings
      • Berkeley accent mark and glyph strings
    • 4.6.9 Naming Conventions
• 5 GNU troff Reference
  • 5.1 Text
    • 5.1.1 Filling
    • 5.1.2 Sentences
    • 5.1.3 Hyphenation
    • 5.1.4 Breaking
    • 5.1.5 Adjustment
    • 5.1.6 Tabs and Leaders
    • 5.1.7 Requests and Macros
    • 5.1.8 Macro Packages
    • 5.1.9 Input Encodings
    • 5.1.10 Input Conventions
  • 5.2 Page Geometry
  • 5.3 Measurements
    • 5.3.1 Motion Quanta
    • 5.3.2 Default Units
  • 5.4 Numeric Expressions
  • 5.5 Identifiers
  • 5.6 Formatter Instructions
    • 5.6.1 Control Characters
    • 5.6.2 Invoking Requests
    • 5.6.3 Calling Macros
    • 5.6.4 Using Escape Sequences
    • 5.6.5 Delimiters
  • 5.7 Comments
  • 5.8 Registers
    • 5.8.1 Setting Registers
    • 5.8.2 Interpolating Registers
    • 5.8.3 Auto-increment
    • 5.8.4 Assigning Register Formats
    • 5.8.5 Built-in Registers
  • 5.9 Manipulating Filling and Adjustment
  • 5.10 Manipulating Hyphenation
  • 5.11 Manipulating Spacing
  • 5.12 Tabs and Fields
    • 5.12.1 Leaders
    • 5.12.2 Fields
  • 5.13 Character Translations
  • 5.14 troff and nroff Modes
  • 5.15 Line Layout
  • 5.16 Line Continuation
  • 5.17 Page Layout
  • 5.18 Page Control
  • 5.19 Using Fonts
    • 5.19.1 Selecting Fonts
    • 5.19.2 Font Families
    • 5.19.3 Font Positions
    • 5.19.4 Using Symbols
    • 5.19.5 Character Classes
    • 5.19.6 Special Fonts
    • 5.19.7 Artificial Fonts
    • 5.19.8 Ligatures and Kerning
    • 5.19.9 Italic Corrections
    • 5.19.10 Dummy Characters
  • 5.20 Manipulating Type Size and Vertical Spacing
    • 5.20.1 Changing the Type Size
    • 5.20.2 Changing the Vertical Spacing
    • 5.20.3 Using Fractional Type Sizes
  • 5.21 Colors
  • 5.22 Strings
  • 5.23 Conditionals and Loops
    • 5.23.1 Operators in Conditionals
    • 5.23.2 if-then
    • 5.23.3 if-else
    • 5.23.4 Conditional Blocks
    • 5.23.5 while
  • 5.24 Writing Macros
    • 5.24.1 Parameters
    • 5.24.2 Copy Mode
  • 5.25 Page Motions
  • 5.26 Drawing Geometric Objects
  • 5.27 Deferring Output
  • 5.28 Traps
    • 5.28.1 Vertical Position Traps
      • 5.28.1.1 Page Location Traps
      • 5.28.1.2 The Implicit Page Trap
      • 5.28.1.3 Diversion Traps
    • 5.28.2 Input Line Traps
    • 5.28.3 Blank Line Traps
    • 5.28.4 Leading Space Traps
    • 5.28.5 End-of-input Traps
  • 5.29 Diversions
  • 5.30 Punning Names
  • 5.31 Environments
  • 5.32 Suppressing Output
  • 5.33 I/O
  • 5.34 Postprocessor Access
  • 5.35 Miscellaneous
  • 5.36 gtroff Internals
  • 5.37 Debugging
    • 5.37.1 Warnings
  • 5.38 Implementation Differences
    • 5.38.1 Safer Mode
    • 5.38.2 Compatibility Mode
    • 5.38.3 Other Differences
• 6 File Formats
  • 6.1 gtroff Output
    • 6.1.1 Language Concepts
      • 6.1.1.1 Separation
      • 6.1.1.2 Argument Units
      • 6.1.1.3 Document Parts
    • 6.1.2 Command Reference
      • 6.1.2.1 Comment Command
      • 6.1.2.2 Simple Commands
      • 6.1.2.3 Graphics Commands
      • 6.1.2.4 Device Control Commands
      • 6.1.2.5 Obsolete Command
    • 6.1.3 Intermediate Output Examples
    • 6.1.4 Output Language Compatibility
  • 6.2 Device and Font Description Files
    • 6.2.1 DESC File Format
    • 6.2.2 Font Description File Format
• Appendix A Copying This Manual
• Appendix B Request Index
• Appendix C Escape Sequence Index
• Appendix D Operator Index
• Appendix E Register Index
• Appendix F Macro Index
• Appendix G String Index
• Appendix H File Keyword Index
• Appendix I Program and File Index
• Appendix J Concept Index

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