Newman 1 Benjamin Newman Prof. Newman Troff 22 July 2006 The
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1. Newman 1 Benjamin Newman Prof Newman Troff 22 July 2006 The MLA Format and Troff This document is meant to be a short example of typesetting a document using troff using the mla macro package It is meant to be compatible with troff Plan 9 edition first and GNU troff second It does not support everything one could possibly want to do it does beat however installing more than one hundred megabytes of mostly junk to use the MLA package is that is the right word It has been awhile for LaTex This package uses the ms macros as its inspiration for macro name If you are using troff Plan 9 edition you can use UNICODE characters instead of the various strings of which there are many the mla macro package has nothing to do with that Everything on Plan 9 is just better like that Part of the word part is underlined This paragraph contains an example of a block quote Every person may freely speak write and publish his sentiments on all subjects being responsible for the abuse of that right and no laws shall be passed to restrain or abridge the liberty of speech or of the press In all criminal prosecutions or indictments for libel the truth may be given in evidence and if it shall appear to the jury that the matter charged as libelous be true and was published with good motives and for justifiable ends the party shall be acquitted and the jury shall have the right to determined the law and the fact A shorter quote We t2. he people of Wisconsin grateful to Almighty God for our freedom in order to secure its blessings form a more perfect government insure domestic tranquility and promote the general welfare do establish this constitution The rest of the paragraphs are supposed to have some meaning they will however be fairly rambly in order to get this paper to beyond two pages There may only be one paragaph Newman 2 after this sentance but adding both the information that there will be and there may not be takes up more room The reason for that is to make sure that the header macro works It works with the works cited page but you can never be too sure Troff compared to LaTex is tiny and more popular if only in its use behind the scene in typesetting manual pages It is also more sane LaTex and probably TEX is very complex I first person think it is a fair assessment to say that it it is easier to expand troff to new tasks LaTex hides the user from the machinary How in the world does one change the aspects of a paragraph in LaTex The general response is that what LaTex does is right and you should not want to change it While this may be true it may not matter if it does not do what you want it to do Because I took the time to write this paragraph paragraph I did notice a bug in the paragraph macro that is mentioned the troff user manual No bottom margin Ossanna 34 This has since been fixed Newman 3 Works Cited Duff To
3. m Rc A Shell for Plan 9 and UNIX Systems Proc of the Summer 1990 UKUUG Conf Londan July 1990 Ossanna Joseph Kernighan Brian Troff User s Manual Plan 9 Programmer s Manual Volume 2 Lucent Technologies Bell Laboratories Murray Hill NJ 2002
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