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@(#)man.7 8.2 (Berkeley) 12/30/93

.AT 3 man - (deprecated) macros to typeset manual nroff -man file ...

troff -man file ...

These macros were used in the past to lay out pages of this manual. A skeleton page may be found in the file /usr/share/misc/man.template. The new macros are in mdoc(7).

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 :

Change to default type size. /usr/share/tmac/tmac.an

/usr/man/man.template

man(1), troff(1) Relative indents don't nest. .di xx \ka

.di Request Cause If no Explanation Break Argument .tr ~. ~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 .5i 1i... Restore default tabs. ~HP i yes i=p.i.* Set prevailing indent to i. Begin paragraph 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. ~LP yes - Same as .PP. ~PD d no d=.4v Interparagraph distance is d. ~PP yes - Begin paragraph. Set prevailing indent to .5i. ~RE yes - End of relative indent. Set prevailing indent to amount of starting .RS. ~RB t no t=n.t.l. Join words of t alternating Roman and bold. ~RI t no t=n.t.l. Join words of t alternating Roman and italic. ~RS i yes i=p.i. Start relative indent, move left margin in distance i. Set prevailing indent to .5i for nested indents. ~SH t yes t=n.t.l. Subhead. ~SM t no t=n.t.l. Text t is small. ~TH n c x v m yes - 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 i yes i=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.

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