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                      3: .EH 'USD:25-%''A TROFF Tutorial'
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                      5: .\".RP
                      6: .....TM 76-1273-7 39199 39199-11
                      7: .TL
                      8: A TROFF Tutorial
                      9: .AU "MH 2C-518" 6021
                     10: Brian W. Kernighan
                     11: (updated for 4.3BSD by Mark Seiden)
                     12: .AI
                     13: .MH
                     14: .OK
                     15: \"Typesetting
                     16: \"Text formatting
                     17: \"NROFF
                     18: .AB
                     19: .PP
                     20: .UL troff
                     21: is a text-formatting program for
                     22: typesetting on the
                     23: .UX
                     24: operating system.
                     25: This device is capable of producing high quality
                     26: text;
                     27: this paper is an example of
                     28: .UL troff
                     29: output.
                     30: .PP
                     31: The phototypesetter itself normally runs with four fonts,
                     32: containing roman, italic and bold letters 
                     33: (as on this page),
                     34: a full greek alphabet, and a substantial number of
                     35: special characters and mathematical symbols.
                     36: Characters can be printed in a range of sizes,
                     37: and placed anywhere on the page.
                     38: .PP
                     39: .UL troff
                     40: allows the user full control over fonts,
                     41: sizes, and character positions,
                     42: as well as the usual features of a formatter _
                     43: right-margin justification, automatic hyphenation,
                     44: page titling and numbering, and so on.
                     45: It also provides macros, arithmetic variables and operations,
                     46: and conditional testing, for complicated formatting tasks.
                     47: .PP
                     48: This document is an introduction to the most basic use of
                     49: .UL troff .
                     50: It presents just enough information to enable the user
                     51: to do simple formatting
                     52: tasks like making viewgraphs,
                     53: and to make incremental changes to existing packages
                     54: of
                     55: .UL troff
                     56: commands.
                     57: In most respects, the 
                     58: .UC UNIX
                     59: formatter
                     60: .UL nroff
                     61: and a more recent version
                     62: .ul
                     63: (device-independent 
                     64: .UL troff)
                     65: are identical to
                     66: the version described here, so this document also serves as a tutorial for
                     67: them as well.
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