Footnotes

(1)

What You See Is What You Get

(2)

The same is true for the other main macro packages that come with groff: `man', `mdoc', `ms', `mm', and `mandoc'. This won't work in general; for example, to load `tmac.safer', either `-msafer' or `-m safer' must be used.

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This section is derived from Writing Papers with nroff using -me by Eric P. Allman.

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those that specify vertical or horizontal motion or a type size

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The last solution, i.e., using escaped spaces, is "classical" in the sense that it can be found in most troff documents. Nevertheless, it is not optimal in all situations, since `\ ' inserts a fixed-width, non-breaking space character which can't stretch. gtroff provides a different command \~ to insert a stretchable, non-breaking space.

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Unfortunately, this is a lie. But hopefully future gtroff hackers will believe it :-)