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     NAME
          man - macros to typeset manual

     SYNOPSIS
          nroff -man file ...

          troff -man file ...

     DESCRIPTION
          These macros are used to format pages of this manual.

          Except in `.LR' and `.RL' requests, any text argument
          denoted t in the request summary may be zero to six words.
          Quotes " ... " may be used to include blanks in a `word'.
          If t is empty, the special treatment is applied to the next
          text input line (the next line that doesn't begin with dot).
          In this way, for example, .I may be used to italicize a line
          of more than 6 words, or .SM followed by .B to make small
          letters in `bold' font.

          A prevailing indent distance is remembered between succes-
          sive indented paragraphs, and is reset to default value upon
          reaching a non-indented paragraph.  Default units for
          indents i are ens.

          The fonts are

          R    roman, the main font, preferred for diagnostics
          I    italic, preferred for parameters, short names of com-
               mands, names of manual pages, and naked function names
          `B'  `bold', actually the constant width font, preferred for
               examples, file names, declarations, keywords, names of
               struct members, and literals (numbers are rarely liter-
               als)
          L    also the constant width font.  In troff L=B; in nroff
               arguments of the macros .L, .LR, and .RL are printed in
               quotes; preferred only where quotes really help (e.g.
               lower-case literals and punctuation).

          Type font and size are reset to default values before each
          paragraph, and after processing font- or size-setting mac-
          ros.

          The -man macros admit equations and tables in the style of
          eqn(1) and tbl(1), but do not support arguments on .EQ and
          .TS macros.

          These strings are predefined by -man:

          \*R  `(Reg)', trademark symbol in troff.










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          \*S  Change to default type size.

     FILES
          /sys/lib/tmac/tmac.an

     SEE ALSO
          troff(1), man(1)

     REQUESTS
     Request   Cause If no    Explanation
               Break Argument
     .B t      no    t=n.t.l.*Text t is `bold'.
     .BI t     no    t=n.t.l. Join words of t alternating bold and
                              italic.
     .BR t     no    t=n.t.l. Join words of t alternating bold and
                              Roman.
     .DT       no             Restore default tabs.
     .EE       yes            End displayed example
     .EX       yes            Begin displayed example
     .HP i     yes   i=p.i.*  Set prevailing indent to i. Begin para-
                              graph with hanging indent.
     .I t      no    t=n.t.l. Text t is italic.
     .IB t     no    t=n.t.l. Join words of t alternating italic and
                              bold.
     .IP x i   yes   x=""     Same as .TP with tag x.
     .IR t     no    t=n.t.l. Join words of t alternating italic and
                              Roman.
     .L t      no    t=n.t.l. Text t is literal.
     .LP       yes            Same as .PP.
     .LR t     no             Join 2 words of t alternating literal
                              and Roman.
     .PD d     no    d=.4v    Interparagraph distance is d.
     .PP       yes            Begin paragraph.  Set prevailing indent
                              to default.
     .RE       yes            End of relative indent.  Set prevailing
                              indent to amount of starting .RS.
     .RI t     no    t=n.t.l. Join words of t alternating Roman and
                              italic.
     .RL t     no             Join 2 or 3 words of t alternating Roman
                              and literal.
     .RS i     yes   i=p.i.   Start relative indent, move left margin
                              in distance i. Set prevailing indent to
                              default for nested indents.
     .SH t     yes   t=""     Subhead; reset paragraph distance.
     .SM t     no    t=n.t.l. Text t is small.
     .SS t     no    t=""     Secondary subhead.
     .TF s     yes            Prevailing indent is wide as string s in
                              font L; paragraph distance is 0.
     .TH n c x yes            Begin page named n of chapter c; x is
                              extra commentary, e.g. `local', for page
                              head.  Set prevailing indent and tabs to
                              default.










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     .TP i     yes   i=p.i.   Set prevailing indent to i. Restore
                              default indent if i=0. Begin indented
                              paragraph with hanging tag given by next
                              text line.  If tag doesn't fit, place it
                              on separate line.
     .1C       yes            Equalize columns and return to 1-column
                              output
     .2C       yes            Start 2-column nofill output

     * n.t.l. = next text line; p.i. = prevailing indent

     BUGS
          There's no way to fool troff into handling literal double
          quote marks " in font-alternation macros, such as `.BI'.
          There is no direct way to suppress column widows in 2-column
          output; the column lengths may be adjusted by inserting
          `.sp' requests before the closing `.1C'.