Typing Documents on the UNIX System Using the–ms and–mcs Macros with Troff.pdfVIP

Typing Documents on the UNIX System: Using the –ms and –mcs Macros with Troff† L. L. Cherry M. E. Lesk ATT Bell Laboratories Murray Hill, New Jersey 07974 ABSTRACT This document describes a set of easy-to-use macros for preparing documents on the UNIX operating system. The macros provide facilities for paragraphs, sections headings (optionally with automatic numbering), page titles, footnotes, equations, tables, two-column for- mat, and several formats of cover pages for papers. This memo includes, as an appendix, the text of ‘‘A Guide to Preparing Documents with –ms and –mcs,’’ which contains additional examples of features of –ms. Introduction. This memorandum describes a package of commands to produce papers using the troff formatting program. As with other formatting programs, text is prepared interspersed with formatting commands. However, this package, which itself is written in troff commands, provides higher-level commands than those pro- vided with the basic troff program. A separate set of macros, –mcs, produces an official ATT style internal docu- ment cover sheet. The –mcs macros automatically invoke the –ms macros. Although the basic –ms macros work with nroff, the –mcs macros do not. Macro names were selected in –mcs to avoid collisions with the original –ms macros and thereby maintain backward compatibility. This document reflects the new macros. The commands available in this package are