

ms                    Technical Information                    ms




Manuscript macro package

nnrrooffff -mmss _f_i_l_e ...

The nroff macro  package ms formats manuscripts.  The tutorial on
nroff describes the ms macros in detail.

ms includes the following macros:

.AABB  Begin the abstract portion of a document's title page.

.AAEE  End the abstract

.AAII  Indicate author's institution on a document's title page.

.AAUU  Name the author on the title page of a document.

.BB   Boldface  font: set the following  argument in boldface.  If
     the argument is longer than one word, it must be enclosed in
     quotation marks.  Anything on the line after the argument is
     thrown away.

.BBDD  Block-centered display.  Take  a portion of text; do not ad-
     just it  or break it between  two lines, but center  it as a
     whole.

.BBTT   Bottom title.   This controls  the  printing of  the footer
     title, should  you want one.  It uses  three strings, all or
     any of  which can be defined by the  user: LLFF, for left-hand
     portion; CCFF, for center portion; and RRFF, for right-hand por-
     tion.  CCFF  has the default  definition of printing  the page
     number; the other two strings are undefined.

.CCDD  Centered  display.  Center individually every  line within a
     display.

.DDAA  Set the date.

.DDEE  Mark the end of a display.  Do _n_o_t use after the macros .LLDD,
     .CCDD, or .RRDD.

.DDSS  Mark  the beginning of  a display.  Do _n_o_t  use for displays
     longer than one page.

.FFEE  Mark the end of a footnote entry.

.FFSS  Mark the beginning of a footenote entry.

.II   Italic font.  Used like .BB, above.

.IIDD  Indent a display 1/2 inch before printing.

.IIPP  Indent a paragraph  of text before printing.  This macro can
     take  two arguments:  argument 1  is used as  a ttaagg  that is


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     printed to the left of  the first line of the paragraph; ar-
     gument  2 indicates  how  far to  indent  the paragraph,  in
     characters (the default is five characters, or 1/2 inch).

.KKEE  Indicate the  end of a _k_e_e_p, or a  portion of text that must
     not be broken between two pages.

.KKFF  Start floating keep.

.KKSS  Indicate the beginning of a _k_e_e_p.

.LLDD  Set a display flush left; used with displays that are longer
     than one page.

.NNHH   Set a  numbered heading.  This  macro takes  two arguments.
     Argument 1  is the text  of the heading; if  longer than one
     word, it must be enclosed in quotation marks.  Argument 2 is
     the _d_e_p_t_h of numbering;  for example, a `4' here would yield
     a number  of the format ``1.1.1.1''.   No number higher than
     five is accepted here.

.PPPP  Begin a new paragraph.

.QQEE  Mark the end of a quoted paragraph.

.QQPP  Quoted paragraph.  Used like .IIPP, above.

.QQSS  Mark the beginning of  quoted text; text is indented by five
     characters (1/2 inch).

.RR   Roman font.  Used like .BB, above.

.RREE  Mark the end of a relative indentation.

.RRSS  Mark  the beginning of  a relative indentation.   A relative
     indentation is a block of text that is indented five charac-
     ters (1/2 inch) more than the text before it.

.SSHH   Subheading.   One  line  of  space  is  inserted,  and  the
     following line of text is set boldface and centered.

.TTAA  Set tabs, in characters.

.TTLL  Title: format  the title entry on the cover  page of a docu-
     ment.

***** Files *****

/usr/lib/tmac.s

***** See Also *****

man, nroff, technical information, troff
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