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DESCRIPTION
The me
package of macro definitions for the roff language
provides a convenient facility for preparing technical
papers in various formats. This manual page describes the
GNU version of the me macros, which is part of the
groff document formatting system. This version can be
used with both GNU troff and Unix troff.
Many
roff requests are unsafe in conjunction with this
package; however, the following requests may be used with
impunity after the first .pp:
Note: In
contrast to its behavior with other macro packages and
“raw” roff, when using the me
package, the .sp request will not put space at
the top of a page.
Output of the
pic, eqn, refer, and tbl
preprocessors is acceptable as input.
Macro
Reference
Numeric arguments to macros are denoted with lowercase
letters and string arguments with uppercase. An optional
macro argument such as x appears in brackets,
[x]. Note that arguments to macros
generally must be quoted if they contain whitespace. An
exception is the argument to header and footer macros, which
require some explanation. They take the form “c
left c middle c right c”, with spaces added here
for clarity. The strings left, middle, and
right correspond to their page placement and can
contain unprotected whitespace, but must not contain the
(non-space) character c, which delimits them. For
brevity, the table presents header and footer arguments as
clcmcrc. Popular choices for c are the ASCII
apostrophe “'” and the ASCII double quote
“"”.
This list is
incomplete; some requests are too complex to summarize in a
table, and some that are listed below accept additional
arguments not shown. See the -me Reference Manual for
interesting details.
FILES
/usr/share/groff/1.22.4/tmac/me.tmac
(a wrapper file for e.tmac)
/usr/share/groff/1.22.4/tmac/e.tmac
NOTES
Early
roff macro packages limited themselves to a
single-letter namespace (mm, ms, mv,
mn, etc.). The “e” in “me”
stands for “Eric P. Allman”, who wrote the macro
package and the original technical papers documenting it
while an undergraduate at the University of California.
SEE ALSO
groff(1),
troff(1)
Two manuals are
available in source and rendered form. On your system, they
may be compressed and/or available in additional formats.
/usr/share/doc/groff-base/meintro.me
/usr/share/doc/groff-base/meintro.ps
is Writing Papers with Groff
Using -me, by Eric P. Allman and James Clark.
/usr/share/doc/groff-base/meref.me
/usr/share/doc/groff-base/meref.ps
is the -me Reference
Manual, by Eric P. Allman and James Clark.
For
preprocessors supported by me, see eqn(1),
grn(1), pic(1), refer(1), and
tbl(1).
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