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| author | Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org> | 2024-04-15 19:44:05 +0000 |
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| committer | Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org> | 2024-04-15 19:44:05 +0000 |
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diff --git a/doc/groff.html.node/Document-Parts.html b/doc/groff.html.node/Document-Parts.html new file mode 100644 index 0000000..7b83511 --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/groff.html.node/Document-Parts.html @@ -0,0 +1,84 @@ +<!DOCTYPE html> +<html> +<!-- Created by GNU Texinfo 7.0.3, https://www.gnu.org/software/texinfo/ --> +<head> +<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> +<!-- This manual documents GNU troff version 1.23.0. + +Copyright © 1994-2023 Free Software Foundation, Inc. + +Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document +under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.3 or +any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no +Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A +copy of the license is included in the section entitled "GNU Free +Documentation License". --> +<title>Document Parts (The GNU Troff Manual)</title> + +<meta name="description" content="Document Parts (The GNU Troff Manual)"> +<meta name="keywords" content="Document Parts (The GNU Troff Manual)"> +<meta name="resource-type" content="document"> +<meta name="distribution" content="global"> +<meta name="Generator" content="makeinfo"> +<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width,initial-scale=1"> + +<link href="index.html" rel="start" title="Top"> +<link href="Request-Index.html" rel="index" title="Request Index"> +<link href="index.html#SEC_Contents" rel="contents" title="Table of Contents"> +<link href="Language-Concepts.html" rel="up" title="Language Concepts"> +<link href="Argument-Units.html" rel="prev" title="Argument Units"> +<style type="text/css"> +<!-- +div.example {margin-left: 3.2em} +--> +</style> + + +</head> + +<body lang="en"> +<div class="subsubsection-level-extent" id="Document-Parts"> +<div class="nav-panel"> +<p> +Previous: <a href="Argument-Units.html" accesskey="p" rel="prev">Argument Units</a>, Up: <a href="Language-Concepts.html" accesskey="u" rel="up">Language Concepts</a> [<a href="index.html#SEC_Contents" title="Table of contents" rel="contents">Contents</a>][<a href="Request-Index.html" title="Index" rel="index">Index</a>]</p> +</div> +<hr> +<h4 class="subsubsection" id="Document-Parts-1">6.1.1.3 Document Parts</h4> + +<p>A correct intermediate output document consists of two parts, the +<em class="dfn">prologue</em> and the <em class="dfn">body</em>. +</p> +<p>The task of the prologue is to set the general device parameters using +three exactly specified commands. <code class="code">gtroff</code>’s prologue is +guaranteed to consist of the following three lines (in that order): +</p> +<div class="example"> +<div class="group"><pre class="example-preformatted">x T <var class="var">device</var> +x res <var class="var">n</var> <var class="var">h</var> <var class="var">v</var> +x init +</pre></div></div> + +<p>with the arguments set as outlined in <a class="ref" href="Device-Control-Commands.html">Device Control Commands</a>. +The parser for the intermediate output format is able to interpret +additional whitespace and comments as well even in the prologue. +</p> +<p>The body is the main section for processing the document data. +Syntactically, it is a sequence of any commands different from the ones +used in the prologue. Processing is terminated as soon as the first +‘<samp class="samp">x stop</samp>’<!-- /@w --> command is encountered; the last line of any +<code class="code">gtroff</code> intermediate output always contains such a command. +</p> +<p>Semantically, the body is page oriented. A new page is started by a +‘<samp class="samp">p</samp>’ command. Positioning, writing, and drawing commands are always +done within the current page, so they cannot occur before the first +‘<samp class="samp">p</samp>’ command. Absolute positioning (by the ‘<samp class="samp">H</samp>’ and ‘<samp class="samp">V</samp>’ +commands) is done relative to the current page; all other positioning is +done relative to the current location within this page. +</p> + +</div> + + + +</body> +</html> |