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How to format academic papers on Linux with groff -me

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Feb 21, 2018

On Linux, nroff and troff are combined as GNU troff, more commonly known as groff. I was happy to see a version of groff included in my early Linux distribution, so I set out to learn how to use it to write class papers. The first macro set I learned was the -me macro package, a straightforward, easy to learn macro set.

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