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Groff is a document processor. I use it on a daily basis for
technical documents and letters. (together with VIM
and XFIG)
With groff, you can do alot of things:
- create Postscript files and preview/manipulate/print them
- render the document on a terminal (read all your docs also when working from remote with ssh/telnet)
- create html output
- create PDF Files (using ghostscript)
- even more...
Troff/Groff Documents
The following documents have helped me using groff. Maybe the help you also:
| Filename |
Description |
Local link |
| Troff User's Manual by Ossana and Kernighan |
This is the one paper, I find myself looking at the most.
It's a good reference (in fact, the only one I've found!)
of all the original troff requests. If you are writing
your own macros, you will need this. |
TroffUsersManual.ps |
| A Troff Tutorial by Brian W. Kernighan |
This is as short tutorial which shows how to do things
in troff without help of macros |
TroffTutorial.ps |
| tbl Introduction and Reference by M.E. Lesk |
This is the one to look at when you want to work with
tables (which you certainly will). It has a lot of
examples, which helps understanding! |
tbl.ps |
| The Groff and Friends Howto |
A very good starting point for using groff! Gives an introduction
to the ms macros and has a FAQ Section which helped me alot |
TheGroffFriendsHowto.ps |
| ms macro references |
If you are using the ms macros, the following doc may educate you: |
UsingTheMSmacros.ps |
More [gtn]roff resources
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