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Groff
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o The argument of the command line option `-I' is now also passed to troff
and grops, specifying a directory to search for files on the command line,
files named in `so' and `psbb' requests, and files named in \X'ps: file'
and \X'ps: import' escapes.
o If option `-V' is used more than once, the commands will be both printed
on standard error and run.
Troff
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o Two new read-only, string-valued registers `.m' and `.M' return the
name of the current drawing and background color, respectively.
o New read-only register `.U' which is set to 1 if in safer mode and set
to 0 if in unsafe mode.
o An input encoding file for latin-5 (a.k.a. ISO 8859-9) has been added.
Example use:
groff -Tdvi -mlatin5 my_file > my_file.dvi
Note that some output devices don't support all glyphs of this encoding.
o If the `return' request is called with an argument, it exits twice,
namely the current macro and the macro one level higher. This is
used to define a wrapper macro for `return' in trace.tmac.
o For completeness, two new requests have been added: `dei1' and `ami1'.
They are equivalent to `dei' and `ami', respectively, but the macros
are executed with compatibility mode off (similar to `de1' and `am1').
o New command line option `-I' to specify a directory for files (both
those on the command line and those named in `psbb' requests). This is
also handled by the groff wrapper program.
o Since version 1.19 you can say `.vs 0'. Older versions emit a warning
and convert this to `.vs \n[.V]'.
This hasn't been documented properly. Note that `.vs 0' isn't saved in a
diversion since it doesn't result in vertical motion.
Pic
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o Dashed and dotted ellipses have been implemented.
Tbl
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o New key character `x' to make tbl call a user-defined macro on a table
cell. Patch by Heinz-Jürgen Oertel <hj.oertel@surfeu.de>.
Grohtml
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o New option `-j' to emit output splitted into multiple files.
Grops
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o New command line option `-I' to specify a directory to search for files
on the command line and files named in \X'ps: import' and \X'ps: file'
escapes. This is also handled by the groff wrapper program.
o The default value for the `broken' keyword in the DESC file is now 0.
Grolj4
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o A new man page `lj4_font(5)' documents how fonts are accessed with
grolj4.
o The built-in fonts for LJ4 and newer PCL 5 devices have been completely
revised, mainly to access as much glyphs as possible. The provided
metric files should be compatible with recent PCL 5 printers also.
Additionally, font description files have been added for the Arial and
Times New Roman family, the MS symbol, and Wingdings fonts.
Hpftodit
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o Completely revised to handle HP TrueType metric files also. See the
hpftodit manual page for more details.
Macro Packages
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o www.tmac: New macro `JOBNAME' to split output into multiple files.
o In mdoc, multiple calls to `.Lb' are now supported in the LIBRARY
section.
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More stuff for groff
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Windows 32
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Here two ports using the gcc compiler and other GNU tools:
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. Cygwin:
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http://sources.redhat.com/cygwin/
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Look for a convenient mirror site in
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http://sources.redhat.com/cygwin/mirrors.html
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At any of those mirrors, groff can be found in the directory
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latest/groff.
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. Kees Zeelenberg <c.zeelenberg@hccnet.nl>:
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http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/groffl.htm
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This port includes recent versions of grap and deroff.
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dos
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Binaries for Eli Zaretskii's port using the djgpp compiler are available
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from
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ftp://ftp.simtel.net/pub/simtelnet/gnu/djgpp/v2gnu/gro*b.zip
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and its mirrors; for installation details please read `arch/djgpp/README'.
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This port also runs on Windows 32 systems, except Windows 2000.
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grap
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An implementation of Kernighan & Bentley's grap language for typesetting
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graphs. Written by Ted Faber <faber@lunabase.org>. The actual version
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can be found at
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http://www.lunabase.org/~faber/Vault/software/grap/
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A djgpp port which runs on dos and most Windows 32 systems (Windows 95,
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Windows 98, Windows NT) done by Kees Zeelenberg <c.zeelenberg@hccnet.nl>
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is available from
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ftp://ftp.simtel.net/pub/simtelnet/gnu/djgpp/v2apps/
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It is intended to be used with the djgpp port of groff.
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A Windows 32 port is included in the groff package available from
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http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/
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plot2dev
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--------
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This utility program can convert plot graphics to either pic or gremlin
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files. It has been written by Richard Murphey <richard-murphey@rice.edu>
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and Daniel Senderowicz <daniel@synchrods.com> (who has added the gremlin
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driver). The actual version can be found as
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ftp://ftp.ffii.org/pub/groff/plot2dev-x.x.tar.gz
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troffcvt
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From the web page:
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troffcvt is a translator that turns troff input into a form that can be
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more easily processed. The troffcvt distribution comes with
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postprocessors that turn troffcvt into various destination formats such
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as HTML (Hypertext Markup Language), RTF (Rich Text Format) or plain
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text.
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Note that you need a lot of additional packages to compile troffcvt;
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everything is available from
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http://www.primate.wisc.edu/software/troffcvt/
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unroff
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From the README file:
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Unroff is a Scheme-based, programmable, extensible troff translator with
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a back-end for the Hypertext Markup Language. Unroff is free software
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and is distributed both as source and as precompiled binaries.
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http://www.informatik.uni-bremen.de/~net/unroff/unroff.html
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You need als Elk, the Scheme based Extension Language Kit, which is
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available from
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http://www.informatik.uni-bremen.de/~net/elk
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deroff
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Deroff removes roff constructs from documents for the purpose of indexing,
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spell checking etc.
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Michael Haardt's <michael@moria.de> implementation is a little smarter
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than traditional implementations, because it knows about certain -man and
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-mm macros. It is able to generate a word list for spell checking tools
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or omit headers for sentence analysis tools. It can further generate
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cpp-style #line lines.
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http://www.moria.de/deroff/
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Version 1.6 compiled with DJGPP (for MS-DOS and all Windows 32 systems,
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i.e. Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows NT) is available from
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ftp://ftp.simtel.net/pub/simtelnet/gnu/djgpp/v2apps/
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and its mirrors.
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A Windows 32 port of version 1.8 is available from
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http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/
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David Frey <dfrey@debian.org> has also written a deroff implementation
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for Debian; it is available from
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ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/d/deroff/
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miscellaneous
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. Ralph Corderoy's excellent page on troff:
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www.troff.org
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There are links for virtually everything related to troff.
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. Dr. Robert Hermann's groff gems are available from
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http://www.eas.slu.edu/People/RBHerrmann/GROFF/index.html
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At present there are examples for
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o creating business cards
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o using groff to make large format posters for presentations
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. Robert Marks's collection of useful macros and scripts is available from
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http://www.agsm.edu.au/~bobm/odds+ends/scripts.html
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Description:
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o `polish': Is a sed (= the Unix stream editor) script that does many
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things to ASCII text. Amongst other things, it breaks lines at new
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sentences, reduces upper-case acronyms by one point size, adds
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diacriticals, changes simple quotes into smart quotes, and makes a few
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simple grammar checks. The best way to see what it does is to run it
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as a sed script file (or files) on a text file and then compare the
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output file with the original.
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o `DropCaps' is a troff script which replaces the initial letters of
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paragraphs immediately after H1 and H2 headings with drop-capitals of
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specified point size, and automatically flows the text around the new
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drop cap.
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o `AJM Header' is a set of troff macros used in production of the
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Australian Journal of Management. They use the Memorandum Macros (mm)
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of AT&T, and so should be invoked with the UNIX troff -mm flag; they
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should also work with the GNU troff -mm flag.
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. Thomas Baruchel <baruchel@libertysurf.fr> has developed Meta-tbl, a tbl
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postprocessor to manipulate table cells (like adding gray shades). The
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latest version can be found at
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http://perso.libertysurf.fr/baruchel/
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. gpresent, written by Bob Diertens <bobd@science.uva.nl>. From the README
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file:
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gpresent is a package for making presentation with groff and acroread.
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It consist of a set of macros to be used with groff and a post-processor
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for manipulating the PostScript output of groff. Without the use of the
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PAUSE macro, it can also be used for making slides.
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It is available from
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www.science.uva.nl/~bobd/useful/gpresent/
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documentation
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Many documents related to the original versions of troff, ditroff, pic,
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and others can be accessed from the following web pages:
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http://www.cs.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/cstr.html
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http://www.cs.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/papers.html
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