NAME

man − macros to typeset manual

SYNOPSIS

nroff  −man  file ... 

troff  −man  file ... 

DESCRIPTION

These macros are used to lay out pages of this manual.  A skeleton page may be found in the file /usr/man/man0/xx. 

Any text argument t may be zero to six words.  Quotes may be used to include blanks in a ‘word’.  If text is empty, the special treatment is applied to the next input line with text to be printed.  In this way .I may be used to italicize a whole line, or .SM followed by .B to make small bold letters. 

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

Type font and size are reset to default values before each paragraph, and after processing font and size setting macros. 

These strings are predefined by −man:

\∗R‘®’, ‘(Reg)’ in nroff. 

\∗SChange to default type size. 

FILES

/usr/lib/tmac/tmac.an
/usr/man/man0/xx

SEE ALSO

troff(1), man(1)

BUGS

Relative indents don’t nest. 

REQUESTS

The following list is summary of the macros used to format DYNIX man pages. 

RequestCauseIf noExplanation

BreakArgument

.B tnot=n.t.l.∗Text t is bold. 

.BI tnot=n.t.l.Join words of t alternating bold and italic. 

.BR tnot=n.t.l.Join words of t alternating bold and Roman. 

.DTno.5i 1i...Restore default tabs. 

.HP iyesi=p.i.∗Set prevailing indent to i.  Begin paragraph with hanging indent. 

.I tnot=n.t.l.Text t is italic. 

.IB tnot=n.t.l.Join words of t alternating italic and bold. 

.IP x iyesx=""Same as .TP with tag x. 

.IR tnot=n.t.l.Join words of t alternating italic and Roman. 

.LPyes-Same as .PP. 

.PD dnod=.4vInterparagraph distance is d. 

.PPyes-Begin paragraph.  Set prevailing indent to .5i. 

.REyes-End of relative indent.  Set prevailing indent to amount of starting .RS. 

.RB tnot=n.t.l.Join words of t alternating Roman and bold. 

.RI tnot=n.t.l.Join words of t alternating Roman and italic. 

.RS iyesi=p.i.Start relative indent, move left margin in distance i.  Set prevailing indent to .5i for nested indents. 

.SH tyest=n.t.l.Section heading. 

.SM tnot=n.t.l.Text t is small. 

.SS iyesi=p.i.Subsection heading. 

.TH n c x v myes-Begin page named n of chapter c; x is extra commentary, e.g. ‘local’, for page foot center; v alters page foot left, e.g. ‘4th Berkeley Distribution’; m alters page head center, e.g. ‘Brand X Programmer’s Manual’.  Set prevailing indent and tabs to .5i. 

.TP iyesi=p.i.Set prevailing indent to i.  Begin indented paragraph with hanging tag given by next text line.  If tag doesn’t fit, place it on separate line. 

.V=no-Take rcs Header as argument, and set the V) string to the date and revision number (arguments 3 and 4). 

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

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