man/man7/man.7

         @(#)man.7 5.1 (Berkeley) 05/20/85

 MAN 7 "7 March 1983"
.AT 3
 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 :  \e*R
 \e*S
Change 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
.di xx
 \ka

.di
Request Cause If no Explanation
 Break Argument
.li
 t no t=n.t.l.* Text  t is bold.
.li
 t no t=n.t.l. Join words of
 t alternating bold and italic.
.li
 t no t=n.t.l. Join words of
 t alternating bold and Roman.
.li

.li
 i yes i=p.i.* Set prevailing indent to
 i. Begin paragraph with hanging indent.
.li
 t no t=n.t.l. Text  t is italic.
.li
 t no t=n.t.l. Join words of
 t alternating italic and bold.
.li
 x i yes x="" Same as .TP with tag
 x. .li
 t no t=n.t.l. Join words of
 t alternating italic and Roman.
.li
 yes - Same as .PP.
.li
 d no d=.4v Interparagraph distance is
 d. .li
 yes - Begin paragraph.
Set prevailing indent to .5i.
.li

Set prevailing indent to amount of starting .RS.
.li
 t no t=n.t.l. Join words of
 t alternating Roman and bold.
.li
 t no t=n.t.l. Join words of
 t alternating Roman and italic.
.li

move left margin in distance
 i. Set prevailing indent to .5i for nested indents.
.li
 t yes t=n.t.l. Subhead.
.li
 t no t=n.t.l. Text  t is small.
.li
 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.
.li
 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