A quick lesson on nroffing.... Nroffing is a process of formatting a document using commands called macros that are essentially two letters preceded by a period and sometimes followed with a number, for example: .in 3 (which means indent following text by 3 spaces) Basic nroff commands: .in # = # is the number of spaces you want the text indented, this command will be in place until you put in a new .in command...if you want something to not be indented you put in .in 0 .bp = break page .ti # = .ti also indents but only for one line, so if you have one sentence that needs to be indented 8 spaces but the rest of the page is indented 3 you can use .ti 8 for that single sentence .ce # = centers by the # of sentences you enter .ne # = keeps the # of lines together (avoids widows) .fi = fill-in, extra space will be ignored and text that is entered like this, the fill-in command will continue until you enter a .nf command and vice-versa .fi the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog will look like this the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog .nf = no-fill, you use for graphs or text that you don't want spaces to be ignored...so .nf the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog will look like this the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog Also, all nroff commands must be all the way to the right, the nroff program recognizes the period as a command only if it is all the way to the left of the document. So...if a document is formatted like this: .nf Network Working Group D. Cohen Request for Comments: 2441 Myricom Category: Informational November 1998 .ce Working with Jon .ce Tribute delivered at UCLA, October 30, 1998 .ti 0 Status of this Memo .fi .in 3 This memo provides information for the Internet community. It does not specify an Internet standard of any kind. Distribution of this memo is unlimited. .ti 0 Copyright Notice Copyright (C) The Internet Society (1998). All Rights Reserved. .ti 0 Tribute .fi .in 3 In 1973, after doing interactive flight simulation over the ARPAnet, I joined ISI and applied that experience to interactive speech over the ARPAnet. ***It will look like this:*** Network Working Group D. Cohen Request for Comments: 2441 Myricom Category: Informational November 1998 Working with Jon Tribute delivered at UCLA, October 30, 1998 Status of this Memo This memo provides information for the Internet community. It does not specify an Internet standard of any kind. Distribution of this memo is unlimited. Copyright Notice Copyright (C) The Internet Society (1998). All Rights Reserved. Tribute In 1973, after doing interactive flight simulation over the ARPAnet, I joined ISI and applied that experience to interactive speech over the ARPAnet. Don't worry about how to actually run the nroff program, just send me text with the nroff commands and I will do the rest. THANKS!!!