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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
+++ 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