Groff

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groff

https://www.gnu.org/software/groff/
typesetting document formatter

groff (GNU roff) is a typesetting system that reads plain text input that includes formatting commands to produce output in PostScript, PDF, HTML, or DVI formats or for display to a terminal. Formatting commands can be low-level typesetting primitives, macros from a supplied package, or user-defined macros. All three approaches can be combined.

A reimplementation and extension of troff and other programs from AT&T Unix, groff is widely available on POSIX and other systems owing to its long association with Unix manuals, including man pages. It and its predecessor have produced several best-selling software engineering texts. groff can create typographically sophisticated documents while consuming minimal system resources.

This is a GNU package:groff

Download

https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/groff/groff-1.23.0.tar.gz

version 1.23.0 (mature)
released on 5 July 2023

OpenPGP signature URL: https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/groff/groff-1.23.0.tar.gz.sig

VCS Checkout

git clone https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/groff.git

Categories

• Interface:command-line
• Programming-language:C++
• Runs-on:GNU/Linux
• Runs-on:Windows
• Runs-on:BSD
• Runs-on:OS X
• Text-creation:documentation-tool
• Use:text-creation
• Works-with:text

Licensing

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License

GPLv3orlater

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Bendikker

Verified on

17 May 2018

Leaders and contributors

Contact(s)	Role
G. Branden Robinson	Maintainer
Werner Lemberg	Maintainer Emeritus
Bertrand Garrigues	Maintainer Emeritus

Resources and communication

Audience	Resource type	URI
	Mailing List	https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/groff-commit/
	Mailing List	https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-groff/
	General	https://savannah.gnu.org/people/
Savannah (Ref)		https://savannah.gnu.org/projects/groff/
	Mailing List	https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-system-discuss/
	Download	https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/groff/
	VCS Repository Webview	https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/groff.git/
	Mailing List	https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/groff/
Debian (Ref)		https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/groff

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