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plan9port/man/man1/pr.1
Dmitri Vereshchagin 10564b1175 tmac/tmac.an: define .MR in a groff compatible way
groff 1.23.0 added .MR to its -man macro package.  The NEWS file states
that the inclusion of the macro "was prompted by its introduction to
Plan 9 from User Space's troff in August 2020."  From d32deab it seems
that the name for Plan 9 from User Space's implementation was suggested
by groff maintainer G. Brandon Robinson.

Not sure if the intention was to make these definitions compatible, but
it would be nice if they were.

Currently, Plan 9 from User Space's .MR expects its second argument to
be parenthesized.  groff's .MR does not.  This results in extra
parentheses appearing in manual references when viewing Plan 9 from User
Space's manual pages on a system using groff.
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.TH PR 1
.SH NAME
pr \- print file
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B pr
[
.I option ...
]
[
.I file ...
]
.SH DESCRIPTION
.I Pr
produces a printed listing of one or more
.I files
on its standard output.
The output is separated into pages headed by a date,
the name of the file or a specified header, and the page number.
With no file arguments,
.I pr
prints its standard input.
.PP
Options apply to all following files but may be reset
between files:
.TP
.BI - n
Produce
.IR n -column
output.
.TP
.BI + n
Begin printing with page
.IR n .
.TP
.B -b
Balance columns on last page, in case of multi-column output.
.TP
.B -d
Double space.
.TP
.BI -e n
Set the tab stops for input text every
.I n
spaces.
.TP
.B -h
Take the next argument as a page header
.RI ( file
by default).
.TP
.BI -i n
Replace sequences of blanks in the output
by tabs, using tab stops set every
.I n
spaces.
.TP
.BI -f
Use form feeds to separate pages.
.TP
.BI -l n
Take the length of the page to be
.I n
lines instead of the default 66.
.TP
.B -m
Print all
.I files
simultaneously,
each in one column.
.TP
.BI -n m
Number the lines of each
.IR file .
The numeric argument
.IR m ,
default 5,
sets the width of the line-number field.
.TP
.BI -o n
Offset the left margin
.I n
character positions.
.TP
.BI -p
Pad each file printed to an odd number of pages.
For two-sided printers,
this will ensure each file will start a new page.
.TP
.BI -s c
Separate columns by the single character
.I c
instead of aligning them with white space.
A missing
.I c
is taken to be a tab.
.TP
.B -t
Do not print the 5-line header or the
5-line trailer normally supplied for each page.
.TP
.BI -w n
For multi-column output,
take the width of the page to be
.I n
characters instead of the default 72.
.SH SOURCE
.B \*9/src/cmd/pr.c
.SH "SEE ALSO"
.MR cat 1 ,
.MR lp 1