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HIS is the home page for groff
(GNU Troff), which is a
software typesetting package that reads plain text mixed
with formatting commands and produces formatted output.
Output may be PostScript or PDF, html, or ASCII/UTF8 for
display at the terminal. Formatting commands may be either
low-level typesetting requests (“primitives”) or
macros from a supplied set. Users may also write their own
macros. All three may be combined.
Present on most Unix systems
owing to its long association with Unix manuals (man pages),
groff is capable of producing typographically sophisticated
documents while consuming only minimal system resources.
The source code of the currently
released versions of groff is available at the
GNU host and its
mirrors; the current development version is available from a
git repository.
The current version is 1.22.4 (Spring 2018).
To view the git repository in
your browser, use
Savannah's cgit interface.
There you can also download snapshots; simply click on a
commit entry line to get the URL.
Additional contributions can be
found
here.
For a special version of groff
on the Microsoft operating systems, see
Groff for Windows
(version 1.21).
Groff was originally written and
maintained by James Clark; it is now maintained by the team
at groff@gnu.org.
This document was produced using
groff-1.22.4.
The image at the top has been contributed by Imogen Mulley,
based on a similar picture found on the
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