> "Who is mom meant for?
Mom (“my own macros”, “my other macros”, “maximum overdrive macros”...) is a macro set for groff, designed to format documents in Portable Document Format (.pdf) and PostScript (.ps). She’s aimed at three kinds of users:
Typesetters who suspect groff might be “the right tool for the job” but who are frustrated, intimidated, or puzzled by groff’s terse, not-always-typographically-intuitive primitives; Non-technical writers who need to format their work easily, with a minimum of clutter; Newcomers to groff, typesetting, or document processing who need a well-documented macro set to get them started.
Mom is actually two macro packages in one: a very complete set of typesetting macros, and an equally thorough set of document formatting macros. The typesetting macros afford fine-grained control over all visible aspects of page layout and design (margins, fonts, sizes, kerning, etc), while the document formatting macros focus on the logical structure of a document (titles, headings, paragraphs, lists, etc) and call on groff to render logical structure into pleasing type. "