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NAME

       groff_me - “me” macro package for formatting documents with GNU roff

SYNOPSIS

       groff -me [option ...] [input-file ...]

       groff -m me [option ...] [input-file ...]

DESCRIPTION

       The  me  package of macro definitions for the roff language provides a convenient facility
       for preparing technical papers in various formats.  This manual  page  describes  the  GNU
       version  of  the  me  macros, which is part of the groff document formatting system.  This
       version can be used with both GNU troff and Unix troff.

       Many roff requests are unsafe in conjunction with this  package;  however,  the  following
       requests may be used with impunity after the first .pp:

       .bp     begin new page
       .br     break output line here
       .sp n   insert n spacing lines
       .ls n   (line spacing) n=1 single, n=2 double space
       .na     no alignment of right margin
       .ce n   center next n lines
       .ul n   underline next n lines

       Note: In contrast to its behavior with other macro packages and “raw” roff, when using the
       me package, the .sp request will not put space at the top of a page.

       Output of the pic, eqn, refer, and tbl preprocessors is acceptable as input.

   Macro Reference
       Numeric arguments to macros are denoted with lowercase letters and string  arguments  with
       uppercase.   An  optional  macro  argument  such as x appears in brackets, [x].  Note that
       arguments to macros generally must be quoted if they contain whitespace.  An exception  is
       the  argument  to header and footer macros, which require some explanation.  They take the
       form “c left c middle c right c”, with spaces added here for clarity.  The  strings  left,
       middle,  and  right  correspond  to  their  page  placement  and  can  contain unprotected
       whitespace, but must not contain the (non-space) character c, which  delimits  them.   For
       brevity, the table presents header and footer arguments as clcmcrc.  Popular choices for c
       are the ASCII apostrophe “'” and the ASCII double quote “"”.

       This list is incomplete; some requests are too complex to summarize in a table,  and  some
       that are listed below accept additional arguments not shown.  See the -me Reference Manual
       for interesting details.

       Request           Initial   Causes   Explanation
                         Value     Break
       ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
       .(c               -         yes      Begin centered block.
       .(d               -         no       Begin delayed text.
       .(f               -         no       Begin footnote.
       .(l               -         yes      Begin list.
       .(q               -         yes      Begin major quote.
       .(x [X]           -         no       Begin item in index (named X).
       .(z               -         no       Begin floating keep.
       .)c               -         yes      End centered block.
       .)d               -         yes      End delayed text.
       .)f               -         yes      End footnote.
       .)l               -         yes      End list.
       .)q               -         yes      End major quote.
       .)x               -         yes      End index item.

       .)z               -         yes      End floating keep.
       .++ M [clcmcrc]   -         no       Define paper section as M, which must be one of C
                                            (chapter), A (appendix), P (preliminary, i.e., front
                                            matter or table of contents), AB (abstract), B
                                            (bibliography), RC (chapters renumbered from page one
                                            each chapter), or RA (appendix renumbered from page
                                            one) (and set page header to clcmcrc).
       .+c [T]           -         yes      Begin chapter (or appendix, etc., as set by .++)
                                            (with title T).
       .1c               1         yes      One-column format on a new page.
       .2c               1         yes      Two-column format.
       .EN               -         yes      Space after equation produced by eqn or neqn.
       .EQ [M [T]]       -         yes      Begin displayed equation (with indentation M, which
                                            must be one of C (centered, default), I (indented),
                                            or L (justified left) (and title T in right margin)).
       .GE               -         yes      End gremlin picture.
       .GS               -         yes      Begin gremlin picture.
       .PE               -         yes      End pic picture.
       .PS               -         yes      Begin pic picture.
       .TE               -         yes      End tbl table.
       .TH               -         yes      End heading of tbl table.
       .TS [H]           -         yes      Begin tbl table; if H, table repeats heading on each
                                            page.
       .b [X [Y]]        -         no       Print X in bold (appending Y in the previous font);
                                            if no arguments, switch to bold.
       .ba n             0         yes      Augment the base indent (for regular text, like
                                            paragraphs) by n.
       .bc               -         yes      Begin new column.
       .bi [X [Y]]       -         no       Print X in bold italics (appending Y in the previous
                                            font); if no arguments, switch to bold italics.
       .bu               -         yes      Begin bulleted paragraph.
       .bx [X [Y]]       -         no       Print X in a box (with Y appended).  Renders reliably
                                            only in no-fill mode.
       .ef clcmcrc       """"      no       Set even-numbered page footer.
       .eh clcmcrc       """"      no       Set even-numbered page header.
       .fo clcmcrc       """"      no       Set page footer.
       .hx               -         no       Suppress headers and footers on next page.
       .he clcmcrc       """"      no       Set page header.
       .hl               -         yes      Draw a horizontal line.
       .i [X [Y]]        -         no       Print X in italics (appending Y in the previous
                                            font); if no arguments, switch to italics.
       .ip [X [n]]       n=5n      yes      Start indented paragraph (with hanging tag X (and
                                            indentation n)).
       .lp               -         yes      Begin paragraph with first line flush left.
       .np               1         yes      Start numbered paragraph.
       .of clcmcrc       """"      no       Set odd-numbered page footer.
       .oh clcmcrc       """"      no       Set odd-numbered page header.
       .pd               -         yes      Print delayed text.
       .pp               -         yes      Begin paragraph with indented first line.
       .r [X [Y]]        -         no       Print X in roman (appending Y in the previous font);
                                            if no arguments, switch to roman.
       .re               0.5i      no       Reset tabs to default values.
       .sh [n [T]]       n=1       yes      Start numbered section; print section number (set to
                                            n (and title T)) in bold.
       .sk               -         no       Leave the next page blank.  Only one page is
                                            remembered ahead.
       .sm X [Y]         -         no       Print X in a smaller point size (appending Y at the
                                            previous size).
       .sz n             10p       no       Augment the point size by n points.
       .tp               -         yes      Begin title page.
       .u X [Y]          -         no       Underline X (appending Y without underlining).
                                            Renders reliably only in no-fill mode.
       .uh [T]           -         yes      Start unnumbered section (and print title T in bold).
       .xp [X]           -         no       Print index (named X).

FILES

       /usr/share/groff/1.22.4/tmac/me.tmac (a wrapper file for e.tmac)
       /usr/share/groff/1.22.4/tmac/e.tmac

NOTES

       Early roff macro packages limited themselves to a single-letter namespace (mm, ms, mv, mn,
       etc.).  The “e” in “me” stands for “Eric P. Allman”, who wrote the macro package and the
       original technical papers documenting it while an undergraduate at the University of
       California.

SEE ALSO

       groff(1), troff(1)

       Two manuals are available in source and rendered form.  On your system, they may be
       compressed and/or available in additional formats.

       /usr/share/doc/groff-base/meintro.me
       /usr/share/doc/groff-base/meintro.ps
              is Writing Papers with Groff Using -me, by Eric P. Allman and James Clark.

       /usr/share/doc/groff-base/meref.me
       /usr/share/doc/groff-base/meref.ps
              is the -me Reference Manual, by Eric P. Allman and James Clark.

       For preprocessors supported by me, see eqn(1), grn(1), pic(1), refer(1), and tbl(1).