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Use the
ms
(“manuscript”)
package to compose
letters,
memoranda,
reports,
and books.
These
groff
macros feature cover page and table of contents generation,
automatically numbered headings,
several paragraph styles,
a variety of text styling options,
footnotes,
and multi-column page layouts.
ms
supports the
tbl,
eqn,
pic,
and
refer
preprocessors for inclusion of tables,
mathematical equations,
diagrams,
and consistently formatted bibliographic citations.
groff ms
is mostly compatible with the documented interface
and behavior of AT&T Unix Version 7
ms.
It recreates most extensions from 4.2BSD (Berkeley)
and Research Tenth Edition Unix.