Need help with using nroff!

Joseph E Poplawski jpoplaws at telesci.UUCP
Fri Nov 17 16:26:28 AEST 1989


I am need of help in finding some advice, assistance, or a book for neophyte
nroff users for the following purpose.

I am in the process of writing several manuscript/essays that are all part of
the same book.  What I am looking for is an easy to use macro package with
a manual aimed at serious neophytes at nroff.  The needs in this package are
the following:

			   page justification
			   page numbering
			   easy to set right/left margins
			   easy to center titles
			   page headings with a string and page number
			      that do not start on the first page
                           chaining other files to a file
			   do not leave last line of a paragraph to
			      be carried over as first line of new page

On my system currently I have the .an, .e, .m, .n, .ptx, .s, .ti, and .v
macros.  I am sure one of them probably does what I am looking for, but the
manual pages I have are not really aimed at someone who doesn't know what 
they are doing in the first place.

This is really imporatant so any help that any of you can give would be
greatly appreciated.  If you do not feel that this matter is important enough
to waste net bandwidth, please feel free to send me mail to this account or
to jep at fantasci.UUCP.

Thanks in advance.

-Jo



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