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ms -- Technical Information Manuscript macro package nroff -ms file ... The nroff macro package ms formats manuscripts. The tutorial on nroff describes the ms macros in detail. ms includes the following macros: .AB Begin the abstract portion of a document's title page. .AE End the abstract .AI Indicate author's institution on a document's title page. .AU Name the author on the title page of a document. .B Boldface font: set the following argument in boldface. If the argument is longer than one word, it must be enclosed in quotation marks. Anything on the line after the argument is thrown away. .BD Block-centered display. Take a portion of text; do not adjust it or break it between two lines, but center it as a whole. .BT Bottom title. This controls the printing of the footer title, should you want one. It uses three strings, all or any of which can be defined by the user: LF, for left-hand portion; CF, for center portion; and RF, for right-hand portion. CF has the default definition of printing the page number; the other two strings are undefined. .CD Centered display. Center individually every line within a display. .DA Set the date. .DE Mark the end of a display. Do not use after the macros .LD, .CD, or .RD. .DS Mark the beginning of a display. Do not use for displays longer than one page. .FE Mark the end of a footnote entry. .FS Mark the beginning of a footnote entry. .I Italic font. Used like .B, above. .ID Indent a display 1/2 inch before printing. .IP Indent a paragraph of text before printing. This macro can take two arguments: argument 1 is used as a tag that is printed to the left of the first line of the paragraph; argument 2 indicates how far to indent the paragraph, in characters (the default is five characters, or 1/2 inch). .KE Indicate the end of a keep, or a portion of text that must not be broken between two pages. .KF Start floating keep. .KS Indicate the beginning of a keep. .LD Set a display flush left; used with displays that are longer than one page. .NH Set a numbered heading. This macro takes one argument: the depth of numbering. For example, a `4' here would yield a number of the format ``1.1.1.1''. No number higher than five is accepted here. The following line gives the text of the heading. .PP Begin a new paragraph. .QE Mark the end of a quoted paragraph. .QP Quoted paragraph. Used like .IP, above. .QS Mark the beginning of quoted text; text is indented by five characters (1/2 inch). .R Roman font. Used like .B, above. .RE Mark the end of a relative indentation. .RS Mark the beginning of a relative indentation. A relative indentation is a block of text that is indented five characters (1/2 inch) more than the text before it. .SH Subheading. One line of space is inserted, and the following line of text is set boldface and flush left. .TA Set tabs, in characters. .TL Title: format the title entry on the cover page of a document. Files /usr/lib/tmac.s See Also man, nroff, troff, Using COHERENT Introduction to nroff, Text Processing Language, tutorial