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 4.3.6.5 Strings and Special Characters
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 The 'ms' macros provide the following predefined strings.  You can
 change the string definitions to help in creating documents in languages
 other than English.
 
  -- String: \*[REFERENCES]
      Contains the string printed at the beginning of the references
      (bibliography) page.  The default is 'References'.
 
  -- String: \*[ABSTRACT]
      Contains the string printed at the beginning of the abstract.  The
      default is 'ABSTRACT'.
 
  -- String: \*[TOC]
      Contains the string printed at the beginning of the table of
      contents.
 
  -- String: \*[MONTH1]
  -- String: \*[MONTH2]
  -- String: \*[MONTH3]
  -- String: \*[MONTH4]
  -- String: \*[MONTH5]
  -- String: \*[MONTH6]
  -- String: \*[MONTH7]
  -- String: \*[MONTH8]
  -- String: \*[MONTH9]
  -- String: \*[MONTH10]
  -- String: \*[MONTH11]
  -- String: \*[MONTH12]
      Prints the full name of the month in dates.  The default is
      'January', 'February', etc.
 
 and Special Characters-Footnote-1::):
 
  -- String: \*[-]
      Prints an em dash.
 
  -- String: \*[Q]
  -- String: \*[U]
      Prints typographer's quotes in troff, and plain quotes in nroff.
      '\*Q' is the left quote and '\*U' is the right quote.
 
    Improved accent marks are available in the 'ms' macros.
 
  -- Macro: .AM
      Specify this macro at the beginning of your document to enable
      extended accent marks and special characters.  This is a Berkeley
      extension.
 
      To use the accent marks, place them *after* the character being
      accented.
 
      Note that groff's native support for accents is superior to the
      following definitions.
 
    The following accent marks are available after invoking the 'AM'
 macro:
 
  -- String: \*[']
      Acute accent.
 
  -- String: \*[`]
      Grave accent.
 
  -- String: \*[^]
      Circumflex.
 
  -- String: \*[,]
      Cedilla.
 
  -- String: \*[~]
      Tilde.
 
  -- String: \*[:]
      Umlaut.
 
  -- String: \*[v]
      Hacek.
 
  -- String: \*[_]
      Macron (overbar).
 
  -- String: \*[.]
      Underdot.
 
  -- String: \*[o]
      Ring above.
 
    The following are standalone characters available after invoking the
 'AM' macro:
 
  -- String: \*[?]
      Upside-down question mark.
 
  -- String: \*[!]
      Upside-down exclamation point.
 
  -- String: \*[8]
      German ß ligature.
 
  -- String: \*[3]
      Yogh.
 
  -- String: \*[Th]
      Uppercase thorn.
 
  -- String: \*[th]
      Lowercase thorn.
 
  -- String: \*[D-]
      Uppercase eth.
 
  -- String: \*[d-]
      Lowercase eth.
 
  -- String: \*[q]
      Hooked o.
 
  -- String: \*[ae]
      Lowercase æ ligature.
 
  -- String: \*[Ae]
      Uppercase Æ ligature.
 

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