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# Formatting Information
So you want to contribute to Grenzland? Great! Just type away!
While you can send me your text in any kind of format, I prefer
plain text. Just save your file as `*.txt` with whatever program
you use for writing.
If you want to help out actually formatting the article you can
add some simple markup to your plain text. The system I use
is called "roff", a *very old school* system indeed. And for
those who know roff a bit, or groff, as it's modern incarnation
is called, *Grenzland* uses the *ms* macro package and adds some
custom macros for convenience. But this was already too much tech
talk so let's just see what you can do:
## Title
Markup the title of your article like this:
```
.H1
Your Title goes here!
```
So that's a dot, capital H and numeral 1 on a single line. It
basically sais: head up, next line will be our title.
## Paragraphs
Let's now make a paragraph with proper indentation and a little
spacing:
```
.PP
Text of your paragraph. If you want to add a new paragraph, just
insert another
.PP
liks this.
```