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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/man.template.

Any text argument t may be zero to six words. Quotes may be used
to include blanks in a ‘word’. If text is empty, 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 may be
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:

‘(Reg)’, trademark symbol in troff.

Change to default type size.

FILES
/usr/lib/tmac/tmac.an
/usr/man/man.template

SEE ALSO
man(1), troff(1)

BUGS
Relative indents don’t nest.

REQUESTS Request Cause If no Explanation
Break Argument
with hanging indent.
Roman.
.5i.
indent to amount of starting .RS.
italic.
distance i. Set prevailing indent to .5i for
nested indents.
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.

paragraph with hanging tag given by
next

text line. If tag doesn’t fit, place it on
separate line.

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