ms.7 (6814B)
1 .TH MS 7 2 .hc % 3 .SH NAME 4 ms \- macros for formatting manuscripts 5 .SH SYNOPSIS 6 .B "nroff -ms" 7 [ 8 .I options 9 ] 10 .I file ... 11 .br 12 .B "troff -ms" 13 [ 14 .I options 15 ] 16 .I file ... 17 .SH DESCRIPTION 18 This package of 19 .I nroff 20 and 21 .MR troff (1) 22 macro definitions provides a canned formatting 23 facility for tech%nical papers in various formats. 24 .PP 25 The macro requests are defined below. 26 Many 27 .I nroff 28 and 29 .I troff 30 requests are unsafe in conjunction with 31 this package, but the following requests may be used with 32 impunity after the first 33 .BR .PP : 34 .LR .bp , 35 .LR .br , 36 .LR .sp , 37 .LR .ls , 38 .LR .na . 39 .PP 40 Output of the 41 .MR eqn (1) , 42 .MR tbl (1) , 43 .MR pic (1) 44 and 45 .MR grap (1) 46 preprocessors 47 for equations, tables, pictures, and graphs is acceptable as input. 48 .SH FILES 49 .B \*9/tmac/tmac.s 50 .SH "SEE ALSO" 51 .br 52 M. E. Lesk, 53 ``Typing Documents on the UNIX System: Using the \-ms Macros with Troff and Nroff'', 54 .I 55 Unix Research System Programmer's Manual, 56 Tenth Edition, Volume 2. 57 .br 58 .IR eqn (1), 59 .IR troff (1), 60 .MR tbl (1) , 61 .MR pic (1) 62 .SH REQUESTS 63 .ta \w'..ND \fIdate\fR 'u +\w'Initial 'u +\w'Cause 'u 64 .br 65 .di x 66 \ka 67 .br 68 .di 69 .in \nau 70 .ti0 71 Request Initial Cause Explanation 72 .ti0 73 Value Break 74 .br 75 .in \nau 76 .ti0 77 \fL\&.1C\fP yes yes One column format on a new page. 78 .ti0 79 \fL\&.2C\fP no yes Two column format. 80 .ti0 81 \fL\&.AB\fP no yes Begin abstract. 82 .ti0 83 \fL\&.AE\fP - yes End abstract. 84 .ti0 85 \fL\&.AI\fP no yes Author's institution follows. 86 Suppressed in 87 .BR .TM . 88 .ti0 89 \fL\&.AT\fP no yes Print `Attached' and turn off line filling. 90 .ti0 91 \fL\&.AU\fP\fP\fP \fIx y\fR no yes Author's name follows. 92 .IR x " is location and " y " is" 93 extension, ignored except in 94 .BR TM . 95 .ti0 96 \fL\&.B\fP \fIx y\fR no no Print 97 .I x 98 in boldface, append 99 .IR y ; 100 if no argument switch to boldface. 101 .ti0 102 \fL\&.B1\fP no yes Begin text to be enclosed in a box. 103 .ti0 104 \fL\&.B2\fP no yes End boxed text. 105 .ti0 106 \fL\&.BI\fP \fIx y\fR no no Print 107 .I x 108 in bold italic and append 109 .IR y ; 110 if no argument switch to bold italic. 111 .ti0 112 \fL\&.BT\fP date no Bottom title, automatically invoked at 113 foot of page. 114 May be redefined. 115 .ti0 116 \fL\&.BX\fP \fIx\fR no no Print 117 .I x 118 in a box. 119 .ti0 120 \fL\&.CW\fP \fIx y\fR no no Constant width font for 121 .IR x , 122 append 123 .IR y ; 124 if no argument switch to constant width. 125 .ti0 126 \fL\&.CT\fP no yes Print `Copies to' and turn off line filling. 127 .ti0 128 \fL\&.DA\fP \fIx\fR nroff no `Date line' at bottom of page 129 is 130 .IR x . 131 Default is today. 132 .ti0 133 \fL\&.DE\fP - yes End displayed text. 134 Implies 135 .BR .KE . 136 .ti0 137 \fL\&.DS\fP \fIx\fR no yes Start of displayed text, 138 to appear verbatim line-by-line: 139 .L I 140 indented (default), 141 .L L 142 left-justified, 143 .L C 144 centered, 145 .L B 146 (block) centered with straight left margin. 147 Implies 148 .BR .KS . 149 .ti0 150 \fL\&.EG\fP no - Print document in BTL format for `Engineer's Notes.' Must be first. 151 .ti0 152 \fL\&.EN\fP - yes Space after equation 153 produced by 154 .I neqn 155 or 156 .MR eqn (1) . 157 .ti0 158 \fL\&.EQ\fP \fIx y\fR - yes Display equation. 159 Equation number is 160 .IR y . 161 Optional 162 .I x 163 is 164 .BR I ", " L ", " C 165 as in 166 .BR .DS . 167 .ti0 168 \fL\&.FE\fP - yes End footnote. 169 .ti0 170 \fL\&.FP\fP \fIx\fR - no Set font positions for a family, e.g., 171 .L .FP luxisans 172 .ti0 173 \fL\&.FS\fP no no Start footnote. 174 The note will be moved to the bottom of the page. 175 .ti0 176 \fL\&.HO\fP - no `Bell Laboratories, Holmdel, 177 New Jersey 07733'. 178 .ti0 179 \fL\&.I\fP \fIx y\fR no no Italicize 180 .IR x , 181 append 182 .IR y ; 183 if no argument switch to italic. 184 .ti0 185 \fL\&.IH\fP no no `Bell Laboratories, Naperville, Illinois 60540' 186 .ti0 187 \fL\&.IM\fP no no Print document in BTL format for an internal memorandum. Must be first. 188 .ti0 189 \fL\&.IP\fP \fIx y\fR no yes Start indented paragraph, 190 with hanging tag 191 .IR x . 192 Indentation is 193 .I y 194 ens (default 5). 195 .ti0 196 \fL\&.KE\fP - yes End keep. 197 Put kept text on next page if not enough room. 198 .ti0 199 \fL\&.KF\fP no yes Start floating keep. 200 If the kept text must be moved to the next page, 201 float later text back to this page. 202 .ti0 203 \fL\&.KS\fP no yes Start keeping following text. 204 .ti0 205 \fL\&.LG\fP no no Make letters larger. 206 .ti0 207 \fL\&.LP\fP yes yes Start left-blocked paragraph. 208 .ti0 209 \fL\&.LT\fP no yes Start a letter; a non-empty first argument 210 produces a full Lucent letterhead, a second argument is a room number, 211 a third argument is a telephone number. 212 .ti0 213 \fL\&.MF\fP - - Print document in BTL format for `Memorandum for File.' Must be first. 214 .ti0 215 \fL\&.MH\fP - no `Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, 216 New Jersey 07974'. 217 .ti0 218 \fL\&.MR\fP - - Print document in BTL format for `Memorandum for Record.' Must be first. 219 .ti0 220 \fL\&.ND\fP \fIdate\fR troff no Use date supplied (if any) only in 221 special BTL format positions; omit from page footer. 222 .ti0 223 \fL\&.NH\fP \fIn\fR - yes Same as 224 .BR .SH , 225 with automatic section 226 numbers like `1.2.3'; 227 .I n 228 is subsection level (default 1). 229 .ti0 230 \fL\&.NL\fP yes no Make letters normal size. 231 .ti0 232 \fL\&.P1\fP - yes Begin program display in constant width font. 233 .ti0 234 \fL\&.P2\fP - yes End program display. 235 .ti0 236 \fL\&.PE\fP - yes End picture; see 237 .MR pic (1) . 238 .ti0 239 \fL\&.PF\fP - yes End picture; restore vertical 240 position. 241 .ti0 242 \fL\&.PP\fP no yes Begin paragraph. 243 First line indented. 244 .ti0 245 \fL\&.PS\fP \fIh w\fR - yes Start picture; height 246 and width in inches. 247 .ti0 248 \fL\&.PY\fP - no `Bell Laboratories, Piscataway, New Jersey 08854' 249 .ti0 250 \fL\&.QE\fP - yes End quoted material. 251 .ti0 252 \fL\&.QP\fP - yes Begin quoted paragraph (indent both margins). 253 .ti0 254 \fL\&.QS\fP - yes Begin quoted material (indent both margins). 255 .ti0 256 \fL\&.R\fP yes no Roman text follows. 257 .ti0 258 \fL\&.RE\fP - yes End relative indent level. 259 .ti0 260 \fL\&.RP\fP no - Cover sheet and first page for released 261 paper. 262 Must precede other requests. 263 .ti0 264 \fL\&.RS\fP - yes Start level of relative indentation 265 from which subsequent indentation is measured. 266 .ti0 267 \fL\&.SG\fP \fIx\fR no yes Insert signature(s) of author(s), 268 ignored except in 269 .B .TM 270 and 271 .BR .LT . 272 .IR x " is the reference line (initials of author and typist)." 273 .ti0 274 \fL\&.SH\fP - yes Section head follows, 275 font automatically bold. 276 .ti0 277 \fL\&.SM\fP no no Make letters smaller. 278 .ti0 279 \fL\&.TA\fP\ \fIx\fR... 5... no Set tabs in ens. 280 Default is 5 10 15 ... 281 .ti0 282 \fL\&.TE\fP - yes End table; see 283 .MR tbl (1) . 284 .ti0 285 \fL\&.TH\fP - yes End heading section of table. 286 .ti0 287 \fL\&.TL\fP no yes Title follows. 288 .ti0 289 \fL\&.TM\fP\ \fIx\fR... no - Print document in BTL technical memorandum format. 290 Arguments are TM number, (quoted list of) case number(s), and file number. 291 Must precede other requests. 292 .ti0 293 \fL\&.TR\fP \fIx\fR - - Print in BTL technical report format; report number is \fIx\fR. Must be first. 294 .ti0 295 \fL\&.TS\fP \fIx\fR - yes Begin table; if 296 .I x 297 is 298 .B H 299 table heading is repeated on new pages. 300 .ti0 301 \fL\&.UL\fP \fIx\fR - no Underline argument (even in troff). 302 .ti0 303 \fL\&.UX\fP\ \fIy z\fP - no `\fIz\fRUNIX\fIy\fP'; 304 first use gives registered trademark notice. 305 .ti0 306 \fL\&.WH\fP - no `Bell Laboratories, Whippany, 307 New Jersey 07981'. 308 .hc