------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sections posible NAME SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION OPTIONS FILES SEE ALSO DIAGNOSTICS BUGS AUTHORS EXAMPLE ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Formating Commands .TH Title and Heading .SH Section Heading .SS Sub-Section Heading .LP Begin Left Blocked Normal Paragraph .IP ["tag"] n Begin Indented Taged Paragraphs ( n = Indent, 4 = default ) .TP n As IP but tag is the next line. .DS Display (don't fill or justify the text) .DS LCR Display Left, Centered, or Right justified .RS n Start Relative Short (indent over this range) .RE End Relative Short .R "tag" Roman (default) .I "tag" Italic .B "tag" Bold .BR "tag" Bold and Roman, alternating by words (or any other combination) .BI "tag" Bold & Italic (another combination) .\" Comment .br Start a page break here .ne n page break if less than n lines left on this page .sp n leave n lines here .nf No Formating (at current indent) .fi restart formating NOTE: a blank line or a line starting with spaces results in a paragraph break. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Inline formating options \& escape the normal meaning of the next character Very useful to escape quotes around tags \e backslash \% optional hyphen \- minus sign (not hyphen) \. dot (not fullstop) \p line break \fR roman \fI italic \fB bold \fP previous state? \(bu bullet \(sq square box \(dg footnote dagger \(dd double dagger -------------------------------------------------------------------------------