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Sorry I don't understand. &nbsp;Can you make it more explicily<br />

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Sorry I don't understand.  Can you make it more explicily


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The groff text formatter expects commands (mark-up) in the document to describe how to format the text. &nbsp;For example &quot;.br&quot; on a line by itself &quot;breaks&quot; the line.<br />
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You only need about 10 markups to write letters and stuff. &nbsp;The manual pages are not so helpful. &nbsp;The manual page you need to read for the description of groff mark-up is &quot;troff&quot;. &nbsp;It goes into blow-by-blow descriptions.<br />
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For exmaple &quot;.break&quot; breaks a loop in groff. &nbsp;I don't see all the mark-up I remember in the manual page, there must be another. &nbsp;The customary macro packages (like the &quot;-me&quot; and &quot;-ms&quot; macros) &nbsp;make groff much nicer to use.<br />
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Manual pages are coded to &quot;-man&quot; macros &quot;.SH&quot; &quot;.P&quot; &quot;.BI&quot; and the like.<br />
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The groff text formatter expects commands (mark-up) in the document to describe how to format the text.  For example ".br" on a line by itself "breaks" the line.

You only need about 10 markups to write letters and stuff.  The manual pages are not so helpful.  The manual page you need to read for the description of groff mark-up is "troff".  It goes into blow-by-blow descriptions.

For exmaple ".break" breaks a loop in groff.  I don't see all the mark-up I remember in the manual page, there must be another.  The customary macro packages (like the "-me" and "-ms" macros)  make groff much nicer to use.

Manual pages are coded to "-man" macros ".SH" ".P" ".BI" and the like.



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Can you give me a little example for how to put in the marks-up into the document ? &nbsp;Also where can I find a man or command refrence of the marks-up ?<br />
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Can you give me a little example for how to put in the marks-up into the document ?  Also where can I find a man or command refrence of the marks-up ?




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Hello,<br />
I want to use groff to format a document (mostly a txt file). &nbsp;However, when I do &quot;groff -Tascii test.txt | more&quot;, it shows up the line won't break even I put in a newline character in it. &nbsp;So what should I do to make my document look normal.
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Hello,
I want to use groff to format a document (mostly a txt file).  However, when I do "groff -Tascii test.txt | more", it shows up the line won't break even I put in a newline character in it.  So what should I do to make my document look normal.

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