ms Technical Information ms
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 ad-
just 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 por-
tion. 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 footenote 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
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printed to the left of the first line of the paragraph; ar-
gument 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 two arguments.
Argument 1 is the text of the heading; if longer than one
word, it must be enclosed in quotation marks. Argument 2 is
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.
.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 charac-
ters (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 centered.
.TA Set tabs, in characters.
.TL Title: format the title entry on the cover page of a docu-
ment.
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***** See Also *****
man, nroff, technical information, troff
Introduction to nroff, Text Processing Language, tutorial
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