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<h2 class="chapter" id="Macro-Packages-2">4 Macro Packages</h2>
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<p>This chapter surveys the “major” macro packages that come with
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<p>Major macro packages are also sometimes described as <em class="dfn">full-service</em>
due to the breadth of features they provide and because more than one
cannot be used by the same document; for example
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<p>doesn’t work. Option arguments are processed before non-option
arguments; the above (failing) sample is thus reordered to
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<p>Many auxiliary, or “minor”, macro packages are also available. They
may in general be used with any full-service macro package and handle a
variety of tasks from character encoding selection, to language
localization, to inlining of raster images. See the
<cite class="cite">groff_tmac<span class="r">(5)</span></cite> man page for a list. Type ‘<samp class="samp">man
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