1.4 Macro Packages

Elemental typesetting functions can be be laborious to use directly with complex documents. A macro facility specifies how certain routine operations, such as starting paragraphs, or printing headers and footers, should be performed in terms of those low-level instructions. Macros can be specific to one document or collected together into a macro package for use by many. groff supplies versions of the widely used macro packages man, mdoc, me, mm, mom, and ms.