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diff --git a/doc/groff.html.node/Common-Features.html b/doc/groff.html.node/Common-Features.html new file mode 100644 index 0000000..074015e --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/groff.html.node/Common-Features.html @@ -0,0 +1,89 @@ +<!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>Common Features (The GNU Troff Manual)</title> + +<meta name="description" content="Common Features (The GNU Troff Manual)"> +<meta name="keywords" content="Common Features (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="Tutorial-for-Macro-Users.html" rel="up" title="Tutorial for Macro Users"> +<link href="Basics.html" rel="prev" title="Basics"> +<style type="text/css"> +<!-- +span.r {font-family: initial; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal} +--> +</style> + + +</head> + +<body lang="en"> +<div class="section-level-extent" id="Common-Features"> +<div class="nav-panel"> +<p> +Previous: <a href="Basics.html" accesskey="p" rel="prev">Basics</a>, Up: <a href="Tutorial-for-Macro-Users.html" accesskey="u" rel="up">Tutorial for Macro Users</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> +<h3 class="section" id="Common-Features-1">3.2 Common Features</h3> +<a class="index-entry-id" id="index-common-features"></a> +<a class="index-entry-id" id="index-features_002c-common"></a> + +<p>GNU <code class="code">troff</code> provides low-level operations for formatting a +document. Many routine operations are undertaken in nearly all +documents that require a series of such primitive operations to be +performed. These common tasks are grouped into <i class="slanted">macros</i>, which +are then collected into a <i class="slanted">macro package</i>. +</p> +<p>Macro packages come in two varieties: “major” or “full-service” +ones that manage page layout, and “minor” or “auxiliary” ones that +do not, instead fulfilling narrow, specific tasks. Find a list in the +<cite class="cite">groff_tmac<span class="r">(5)</span></cite> man page. Type ‘<samp class="samp">man groff_tmac</samp>’ at the +command line to view it. +</p> +<p>We survey several capabilities of full-service macro package below. +Each package employs its own macros to exercise them. For details, +consult its man page or, for <samp class="file">ms</samp>, see <a class="ref" href="ms.html"><samp class="file">ms</samp></a>. +</p> + + +<ul class="mini-toc"> +<li><a href="Paragraphs.html" accesskey="1">Paragraphs</a></li> +<li><a href="Sections-and-Chapters.html" accesskey="2">Sections and Chapters</a></li> +<li><a href="Headers-and-Footers.html" accesskey="3">Headers and Footers</a></li> +<li><a href="Page-Layout-Adjustment.html" accesskey="4">Page Layout</a></li> +<li><a href="Displays-and-Keeps.html" accesskey="5">Displays and Keeps</a></li> +<li><a href="Footnotes-and-Endnotes.html" accesskey="6">Footnotes and Endnotes</a></li> +<li><a href="Table-of-Contents.html" accesskey="7">Table of Contents</a></li> +<li><a href="Indexing.html" accesskey="8">Indexing</a></li> +<li><a href="Document-Formats.html" accesskey="9">Document Formats</a></li> +<li><a href="Columnation.html">Columnation</a></li> +<li><a href="Font-and-Size-Changes.html">Font and Size Changes</a></li> +<li><a href="Predefined-Text.html">Predefined Text</a></li> +<li><a href="Preprocessor-Support.html">Preprocessor Support</a></li> +<li><a href="Configuration-and-Customization.html">Configuration and Customization</a></li> +</ul> +</div> + + + +</body> +</html> |