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| 2 | <title>Contents</title>
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| 3 |
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[b822811] | 4 | <para>The Groff packages contains the addftinfo, afmtodit, eqn, grodvi, groff,
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[6370fa6] | 5 | grog, grohtml, grolj4, grops, grotty, hpftodit, indxbib, lkbib, lookbib,
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| 6 | neqn, nroff, pfbtops, pic, psbb, refer, soelim, tbl, tfmtodit and troff
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[b822811] | 7 | programs.</para>
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[6370fa6] | 8 |
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| 9 | </sect2>
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| 10 |
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| 11 | <sect2><title>Description</title>
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| 12 |
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| 13 | <sect3><title>addftinfo</title>
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| 14 |
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[b822811] | 15 | <para>addftinfo reads a troff font file and adds some additional font-metric
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| 16 | information that is used by the groff system.</para>
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[6370fa6] | 17 |
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| 18 | </sect3>
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| 19 |
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| 20 | <sect3><title>afmtodit</title>
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| 21 |
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[b822811] | 22 | <para>afmtodit creates a font file for use with groff and grops.</para>
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[6370fa6] | 23 |
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| 24 | </sect3>
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| 25 |
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| 26 | <sect3><title>eqn</title>
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| 27 |
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[b822811] | 28 | <para>eqn compiles descriptions of equations embedded within troff input files
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| 29 | into commands that are understood by troff.</para>
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[6370fa6] | 30 |
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| 31 | </sect3>
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| 32 |
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| 33 | <sect3><title>grodvi</title>
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| 34 |
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[b822811] | 35 | <para>grodvi is a driver for groff that produces TeX dvi format.</para>
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[6370fa6] | 36 |
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| 37 | </sect3>
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| 38 |
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| 39 | <sect3><title>groff</title>
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| 40 |
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[b822811] | 41 | <para>groff is a front-end to the groff document formatting system. Normally it
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[a9cb6f08] | 42 | runs the troff program and a post-processor appropriate for the selected
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[b822811] | 43 | device.</para>
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[6370fa6] | 44 |
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| 45 | </sect3>
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| 46 |
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| 47 | <sect3><title>grog</title>
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| 48 |
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[b822811] | 49 | <para>grog reads files and guesses which of the groff options -e, -man, -me,
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| 50 | -mm, -ms, -p, -s, and -t are required for printing files, and prints the groff
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| 51 | command including those options on the standard output.</para>
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[6370fa6] | 52 |
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| 53 | </sect3>
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| 54 |
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| 55 | <sect3><title>grohtml</title>
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| 56 |
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[b822811] | 57 | <para>grohtml translates the output of GNU troff to html</para>
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[6370fa6] | 58 |
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| 59 | </sect3>
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| 60 |
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| 61 | <sect3><title>grolj4</title>
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| 62 |
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[b822811] | 63 | <para>grolj4 is a driver for groff that produces output in PCL5 format suitable
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| 64 | for an HP Laserjet 4 printer.</para>
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[6370fa6] | 65 |
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| 66 | </sect3>
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| 67 |
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| 68 | <sect3><title>grops</title>
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| 69 |
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[b822811] | 70 | <para>grops translates the output of GNU troff to Postscript.</para>
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[6370fa6] | 71 |
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| 72 | </sect3>
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| 73 |
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| 74 | <sect3><title>grotty</title>
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| 75 |
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[b822811] | 76 | <para>grotty translates the output of GNU troff into a form suitable for
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| 77 | typewriter-like devices.</para>
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[6370fa6] | 78 |
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| 79 | </sect3>
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| 80 |
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| 81 | <sect3><title>hpftodit</title>
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| 82 |
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[b822811] | 83 | <para>hpftodit creates a font file for use with groff -Tlj4 from an HP
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| 84 | tagged font metric file.</para>
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[6370fa6] | 85 |
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| 86 | </sect3>
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| 87 |
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| 88 | <sect3><title>indxbib</title>
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| 89 |
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[b822811] | 90 | <para>indxbib makes an inverted index for the bibliographic databases a
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| 91 | specified file for use with refer, lookbib, and lkbib.</para>
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[6370fa6] | 92 |
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| 93 | </sect3>
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| 94 |
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| 95 | <sect3><title>lkbib</title>
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| 96 |
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[b822811] | 97 | <para>lkbib searches bibliographic databases for references that contain
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| 98 | specified keys and prints any references found on the standard output.</para>
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[6370fa6] | 99 |
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| 100 | </sect3>
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| 101 |
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| 102 | <sect3><title>lookbib</title>
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| 103 |
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[b822811] | 104 | <para>lookbib prints a prompt on the standard error (unless the standard input
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[6370fa6] | 105 | is not a terminal), reads from the standard input a line containing a set
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| 106 | of keywords, searches the bibliographic databases in a specified file for
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| 107 | references containing those keywords, prints any references found on the
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[b822811] | 108 | standard output, and repeats this process until the end of input.</para>
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[6370fa6] | 109 |
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| 110 | </sect3>
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| 111 |
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| 112 | <sect3><title>neqn</title>
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| 113 |
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[b822811] | 114 | <para>The neqn script formats equations for ascii output.</para>
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[6370fa6] | 115 |
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| 116 | </sect3>
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| 117 |
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| 118 | <sect3><title>nroff</title>
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| 119 |
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[b822811] | 120 | <para>The nroff script emulates the nroff command using groff.</para>
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[6370fa6] | 121 |
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| 122 | </sect3>
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| 123 |
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| 124 | <sect3><title>pfbtops</title>
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| 125 |
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[b822811] | 126 | <para>pfbtops translates a Postscript font in .pfb format to ASCII.</para>
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[6370fa6] | 127 |
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| 128 | </sect3>
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| 129 |
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| 130 | <sect3><title>pic</title>
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| 131 |
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[b822811] | 132 | <para>pic compiles descriptions of pictures embedded within troff or TeX input
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| 133 | files into commands that are understood by TeX or troff.</para>
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[6370fa6] | 134 |
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| 135 | </sect3>
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| 136 |
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| 137 | <sect3><title>psbb</title>
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| 138 |
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[b822811] | 139 | <para>psbb reads a file which should be a Postscript document conforming to the
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| 140 | Document Structuring conventions and looks for a %%BoundingBox comment.</para>
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[6370fa6] | 141 |
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| 142 | </sect3>
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| 143 |
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| 144 | <sect3><title>refer</title>
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| 145 |
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[b822811] | 146 | <para>refer copies the contents of a file to the standard output, except that
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[6370fa6] | 147 | lines between .[ and .] are interpreted as citations, and lines between .R1
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| 148 | and .R2 are interpreted as commands about how citations are to be
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[b822811] | 149 | processed.</para>
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[6370fa6] | 150 |
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| 151 | </sect3>
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| 152 |
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| 153 | <sect3><title>soelim</title>
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| 154 |
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[b822811] | 155 | <para>soelim reads files and replaces lines of the form
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[6370fa6] | 156 | <emphasis>.so file</emphasis> by the contents of
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[b822811] | 157 | <emphasis>file</emphasis>.</para>
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[6370fa6] | 158 |
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| 159 | </sect3>
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| 160 |
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| 161 | <sect3><title>tbl</title>
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| 162 |
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[b822811] | 163 | <para>tbl compiles descriptions of tables embedded within troff input files
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| 164 | into commands that are understood by troff.</para>
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[6370fa6] | 165 |
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| 166 | </sect3>
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| 167 |
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| 168 | <sect3><title>tfmtodit</title>
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| 169 |
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[b822811] | 170 | <para>tfmtodit creates a font file for use with <userinput>groff
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| 171 | -Tdvi</userinput></para>
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[6370fa6] | 172 |
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| 173 | </sect3>
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| 174 |
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| 175 | <sect3><title>troff</title>
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| 176 |
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[b822811] | 177 | <para>troff is highly compatible with Unix troff. Usually it should be invoked
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[6370fa6] | 178 | using the groff command, which will also run preprocessors and
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[b822811] | 179 | post-processors in the appropriate order and with the appropriate
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| 180 | options.</para>
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[6370fa6] | 181 |
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| 182 | </sect3>
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| 183 |
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| 184 | </sect2>
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| 185 |
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