Troff macro
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The troff
typesetting system includes sets of commands called macros that are run before starting to process the document. These macros include setting up page headers and footers, defining new commands, and generally influencing how the output will be formatted.
The command-line argument for including a macro set is -mname, which has led to many macro sets being known as the base filename with a leading m.
The standard macro sets, with leading m are:
Troff
troff is a document processing system developed by AT&T for the Unix operating system.-History:troff can trace its origins back to a text formatting program called RUNOFF, written by Jerome H. Saltzer for MIT's CTSS operating system in the mid-1960s...
typesetting system includes sets of commands called macros that are run before starting to process the document. These macros include setting up page headers and footers, defining new commands, and generally influencing how the output will be formatted.
The command-line argument for including a macro set is -mname, which has led to many macro sets being known as the base filename with a leading m.
The standard macro sets, with leading m are:
- man -- for creating manual pages
- mdoc -- redesign of man for semantically-annotated manual pages
- me -- for creating research papers
- mm -- for creating memorandumMemorandumA memorandum is from the Latin verbal phrase memorandum est, the gerundive form of the verb memoro, "to mention, call to mind, recount, relate", which means "It must be remembered ..."...
s - ms -- for creating books, reports, and technical documentation