Quick reference guide
Once you know your way around mom, you may find this guide
preferable to using the Table of Contents. It lists mom’s
major user-space macros. The links point to references found
elsewhere in the documentation.
Index to the quick reference guide
TYPESETTING MACROS
- Paper size, margins, line length
- Family, font, point size
- Font modifications
- Linespacing (leading)
- Justification, quad, breaking lines
- Hyphenation
- Word and sentence spacing
- Kerning, ligatures, smartquotes
- Horizontal/vertical motions, columns
- Indents
- Tabs
- Underscoring, underlining
- Superscipts
- Nested lists
- Colour
- Dropcaps
- Smallcaps
- Utilities
- Graphical objects and images
DOCUMENT PROCESSING MACROS
Quick reference guide
TYPESETTING MACROS
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+++ Indents |
| IL | -- set and turn on a left indent |
| IR | -- set and turn on a right indent |
| IB | -- set and turn on indents both left and right |
| IQ | -- quit (exit) all indents |
| TI | -- set and turn on a temporary (one line) indent |
| HI | -- set and turn on a hanging indent |
| ILX | -- left indents off |
| IRX | -- right indents off |
| IBX | -- both left and right indents off |
| +++ Utilities |
| ALIAS | -- give a macro a new name |
| CAPS | -- set type all caps |
| COMMENT | -- silently embed comments in a document |
| ESC_CHAR | -- change the default escape character |
| \*[LEADER] | -- insert leaders at the end of a line |
| LEADER_CHARACTER | -- change the character used for leaders |
| NEWPAGE | -- break to a new page |
| NEWSLIDE | -- break to a new slide |
| PAUSE | -- pause slide presentation |
| TRANSITION | -- transition effect for slides |
| PAD | -- insert equalized whitespace into a line |
| PAD_MARKER | -- change the pad marker |
| \*[RULE] | -- draw a full measure rule |
| SIZESPECS | -- get cap-height, x-height and descender depth |
| SILENT | -- output processing off or on |
| TRAP | -- enable or disable page position traps |
DOCUMENT PROCESSING MACROS
|
+++ Floats |
| FLOAT | -- keep blocks of input together, output on next page
if necessary |