groff: ms Document Control Registers
4.3.3 Document control registers
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The following is a list of document control number registers. For the
sake of consistency, set registers related to margins at the beginning
of your document, or just after the 'RP' macro. You can set other
registers later in your document, but you should keep them together at
the beginning to make them easy to find and edit as necessary.
Margin Settings
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-- Register: \n[PO]
Defines the page offset (i.e., the left margin). There is no
explicit right margin setting; the combination of the 'PO' and 'LL'
registers implicitly define the right margin width.
Effective: next page.
Default value: 1i.
-- Register: \n[LL]
Defines the line length (i.e., the width of the body text).
Effective: next paragraph.
Default: 6i.
-- Register: \n[LT]
Defines the title length (i.e., the header and footer width). This
is usually the same as 'LL', but not necessarily.
Effective: next paragraph.
Default: 6i.
-- Register: \n[HM]
Defines the header margin height at the top of the page.
Effective: next page.
Default: 1i.
-- Register: \n[FM]
Defines the footer margin height at the bottom of the page.
Effective: next page.
Default: 1i.
Text Settings
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-- Register: \n[PS]
Defines the point size of the body text. If the value is larger
than or equal to 1000, divide it by 1000 to get a fractional point
size. For example, '.nr PS 10250' sets the document's point size
to 10.25p.
Effective: next paragraph.
Default: 10p.
-- Register: \n[VS]
Defines the space between lines (line height plus leading). If the
value is larger than or equal to 1000, divide it by 1000 to get a
fractional point size. Due to backwards compatibility, 'VS' must
be smaller than 40000 (this is 40.0p).
Effective: next paragraph.
Default: 12p.
-- Register: \n[PSINCR]
Defines an increment in point size, which is applied to section
headings at nesting levels below the value specified in 'GROWPS'.
The value of 'PSINCR' should be specified in points, with the p
scaling factor, and may include a fractional component; for
example, '.nr PSINCR 1.5p' sets a point size increment of 1.5p.
Effective: next section heading.
Default: 1p.
-- Register: \n[GROWPS]
Defines the heading level below which the point size increment set
by 'PSINCR' becomes effective. Section headings at and above the
level specified by 'GROWPS' are printed at the point size set by
'PS'; for each level below the value of 'GROWPS', the point size is
increased in steps equal to the value of 'PSINCR'. Setting
'GROWPS' to any value less than 2 disables the incremental heading
size feature.
Effective: next section heading.
Default: 0.
-- Register: \n[HY]
Defines the hyphenation level. 'HY' sets safely the value of the
low-level 'hy' register. Setting the value of 'HY' to 0 is
equivalent to using the 'nh' request.
Effective: next paragraph.
Default: 6.
-- Register: \n[FAM]
Defines the font family used to typeset the document.
Effective: next paragraph.
Default: as defined in the output device.
Paragraph Settings
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-- Register: \n[PI]
Defines the initial indentation of a ('PP' macro) paragraph.
Effective: next paragraph.
Default: 5n.
-- Register: \n[PD]
Defines the space between paragraphs.
Effective: next paragraph.
Default: 0.3v.
-- Register: \n[QI]
Defines the indentation on both sides of a quoted ('QP', 'QS', and
'QE' macros) paragraph.
Effective: next paragraph.
Default: 5n.
-- Register: \n[PORPHANS]
Defines the minimum number of initial lines of any paragraph that
should be kept together, to avoid orphan lines at the bottom of a
page. If a new paragraph is started close to the bottom of a page,
and there is insufficient space to accommodate 'PORPHANS' lines
before an automatic page break, then the page break is forced,
before the start of the paragraph.
Effective: next paragraph.
Default: 1.
-- Register: \n[HORPHANS]
Defines the minimum number of lines of the following paragraph that
should be kept together with any section heading introduced by the
'NH' or 'SH' macros. If a section heading is placed close to the
bottom of a page, and there is insufficient space to accommodate
both the heading and at least 'HORPHANS' lines of the following
paragraph, before an automatic page break, then the page break is
forced before the heading.
Effective: next paragraph.
Default: 1.
Footnote Settings
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-- Register: \n[FL]
Defines the length of a footnote.
Effective: next footnote.
Default: '\n[LL]' * 5 / 6.
-- Register: \n[FI]
Defines the footnote indentation.
Effective: next footnote.
Default: 2n.
-- Register: \n[FF]
The footnote format:
'0'
Print the footnote number as a superscript; indent the
footnote (default).
'1'
Print the number followed by a period (like 1.) and indent the
footnote.
'2'
Like 1, without an indentation.
'3'
Like 1, but print the footnote number as a hanging paragraph.
Effective: next footnote.
Default: 0.
-- Register: \n[FPS]
Defines the footnote point size. If the value is larger than or
equal to 1000, divide it by 1000 to get a fractional point size.
Effective: next footnote.
Default: '\n[PS]' - 2.
-- Register: \n[FVS]
Defines the footnote vertical spacing. If the value is larger than
or equal to 1000, divide it by 1000 to get a fractional point size.
Effective: next footnote.
Default: '\n[FPS]' + 2.
-- Register: \n[FPD]
Defines the footnote paragraph spacing.
Effective: next footnote.
Default: '\n[PD]' / 2.
Miscellaneous Number Registers
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-- Register: \n[MINGW]
Defines the minimum width between columns in a multi-column
document.
Effective: next page.
Default: 2n.
-- Register: \n[DD]
Sets the vertical spacing before and after a display, a 'tbl'
table, an 'eqn' equation, or a 'pic' image.
Effective: next paragraph.
Default: 0.5v.
Info Catalog
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