>Date: Mon, 3 Mar 1997 14:15:19 -0800 (PST)
>From: Jeremy Cooper <jeremy@broder.com>

>I learned the roff format from Kernigan & Pike's "The UNIX Programming
>Environment", chapter 9 "Document Preparation".  I really suggest you
>check it out.  Even though we have quite a few more macros since the book
>was published in 1984, it is an immensely helpful good start.  Yes, you
>are correct in that most macros are delimited by newlines, and are hence
>'one per line'.

That chapter is a good introduction, but note that it uses the
old-style -man macros.  New manpages should use the 4.4BSD -mdoc
macros (see mdoc(7) and mdoc.samples(7)) instead.
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