really simple macros for nroff

[Dave Sherman]

Do you often want to write stuff with nroff so it will come out
looking half decent and have page breaks with numbered pages, but
*hate* waiting for all the overhead of -ms or -mm? Well, here's a
real quickie I use. Usually I call it "pg" and stick a ".so pg"
at the beginning of my file. If I want to change any of it, I
just read it right into the file. Here it is:

. pg - page macros - very primitive
.de fo
'bp
'sp 3
'tl ''- % -''
'sp 2
..
.wh -6 fo
.de PA
.sp
.ne 2
.ti +5
..
.de xx
.sp 2
.ne 4
.cu
\\n+a. \\$1
.PA
..
.nr a 0 1

It gives you automatic numbered pages, .PA for paragraphs, and .xx
for consecutively numbered sections. Typical usage:
.xx "Implementation considerations


Dave Sherman
Toronto
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