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4 Macro Packages
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This chapter surveys the "major" macro packages that come with 'groff'.
One, 'ms', is presented in detail.

   Major macro packages are also sometimes described as "full-service"
due to the breadth of features they provide and because more than one
cannot be used by the same document; for example

     groff -m man foo.man -m ms bar.doc

doesn't work.  Option arguments are processed before non-option
arguments; the above (failing) sample is thus reordered to

     groff -m man -m ms foo.man bar.doc

   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 'groff_tmac(5)' man
page for a list.  Type 'man groff_tmac' at the command line to view it.

* Menu:

* man::
* mdoc::
* me::
* mm::
* mom::
* ms::