What mom provides

Mom wants you to look good in print, and she wants you to do it easily. To that end, she provides

• typesetters and document designers a large suite of typesetting commands
• writers with straightforward formatting commands that generate
  • customizable covers and title pages
  • customizable document headers
  • intelligently indented or spaced paragraphs
  • epigraphs
  • numbered or plain hierarchical headings
  • line-for-line, verbatim text quoting
  • formatted blockquotes for longer cited material
  • customizable nested lists
  • footnotes, star/dagger or numbered
  • endnotes
  • margin notes
  • floats
  • columnar output
  • formatted references and bibliographies in MLA style
  • line numbering, with support for referencing footnotes and endnotes by line number
  • customizable page headers and footers
  • pagination
  • bibliographies
  • tables of contents
  • automatic labeling of tables, figures, images, diagrams, equations and graphs
  • lists of tables, figures, and equations
  • frames and shaded backgrounds
  as well as several choices of document type, including correspondence, plus the ability to generate either typeset or typewritten/double-spaced documents from the same source file
• full preprocessor support for tbl (tables), pic (diagrams), grap (graphs), and eqn (equations) along with graphics support for images in most common formats
• support for creating slide presentations
• document designers with complete control over every aspect of a document’s appearance
• newcomers to groff, computer typesetting or text processing with an unthreatening, easily-understood macro package