groff

The GNU implementation of troff

Edition 1.16

Spring 2000

• GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE
  • Preamble
  • TERMS AND CONDITIONS FOR COPYING, DISTRIBUTION AND MODIFICATION
  • How to Apply These Terms to Your New Programs
• 2 Introduction
  • 2.1 What Is groff?
  • 2.2 History
  • 2.3 groff Capabilities
  • 2.4 Macro Packages
  • 2.5 Preprocessors
  • 2.6 Output Devices
  • 2.7 Credits
• 3 Invoking groff
  • 3.1 Options
  • 3.2 Environment
  • 3.3 Invocation Examples
    • 3.3.1 grog
• 4 Tutorial for Macro Users
  • 4.1 Basics
  • 4.2 Common Features
    • 4.2.1 Paragraphs
    • 4.2.2 Sections and Chapters
    • 4.2.3 Headers and Footers
    • 4.2.4 Page Layout
    • 4.2.5 Displays
    • 4.2.6 Footnotes and Annotations
    • 4.2.7 Table of Contents
    • 4.2.8 Indices
    • 4.2.9 Paper Formats
    • 4.2.10 Multiple Columns
    • 4.2.11 Font and Size Changes
    • 4.2.12 Predefined Strings
    • 4.2.13 Preprocessor Support
    • 4.2.14 Configuration and Customization
• 5 Macro Packages
  • 5.1 `man'
    • 5.1.1 Options
    • 5.1.2 Usage
    • 5.1.3 Macros to set fonts
    • 5.1.4 Miscellaneous
  • 5.2 `mdoc'
  • 5.3 `ms'
  • 5.4 `me'
  • 5.5 `mm'
• 6 Programming Tutorial
  • 6.1 Text
    • 6.1.1 Filling and Adjusting
    • 6.1.2 Hyphenation
    • 6.1.3 Sentences
    • 6.1.4 Tab Stops
    • 6.1.5 Implicit Line Breaks
  • 6.2 Input Conventions
  • 6.3 Measurements
    • 6.3.1 Default Units
  • 6.4 Expressions
  • 6.5 Identifiers
  • 6.6 Embedded Commands
    • 6.6.1 Requests
      • 6.6.1.1 Request Arguments
    • 6.6.2 Macros
    • 6.6.3 Escapes
      • 6.6.3.1 Comments
  • 6.7 Registers
    • 6.7.1 Setting Registers
    • 6.7.2 Interpolating Registers
    • 6.7.3 Auto-increment
    • 6.7.4 Assigning Formats
    • 6.7.5 Built-in Registers
  • 6.8 Manipulating Filling and Adjusting
  • 6.9 Manipulating Hyphenation
  • 6.10 Manipulating Spacing
  • 6.11 Tabs and Fields
    • 6.11.1 Leaders
    • 6.11.2 Fields
  • 6.12 Character Translations
  • 6.13 Troff and Nroff Mode
  • 6.14 Line Layout
  • 6.15 Page Layout
  • 6.16 Page Control
  • 6.17 Fonts
    • 6.17.1 Changing Fonts
    • 6.17.2 Font Families
    • 6.17.3 Font Positions
    • 6.17.4 Using Symbols
    • 6.17.5 Artificial Fonts
    • 6.17.6 Ligatures and Kerning
  • 6.18 Sizes
    • 6.18.1 Changing Type Sizes
    • 6.18.2 Fractional Type Sizes
  • 6.19 Strings
  • 6.20 Conditionals and Loops
    • 6.20.1 if-else
    • 6.20.2 while
  • 6.21 Writing Macros
    • 6.21.1 Copy-in Mode
    • 6.21.2 Parameters
  • 6.22 Page Motions
  • 6.23 Drawing Requests
  • 6.24 Traps
    • 6.24.1 Page Location Traps
    • 6.24.2 Diversion Traps
    • 6.24.3 Input Line Traps
    • 6.24.4 End-of-input Traps
  • 6.25 Diversions
  • 6.26 Environments
  • 6.27 I/O
  • 6.28 Postprocessor Access
  • 6.29 Miscellaneous
  • 6.30 Debugging
    • 6.30.1 Warnings
  • 6.31 Implementation Differences
  • 6.32 Summary
• 7 Preprocessors
  • 7.1 geqn
    • 7.1.1 Invoking geqn
  • 7.2 gtbl
    • 7.2.1 Invoking gtbl
  • 7.3 gpic
    • 7.3.1 Invoking gpic
  • 7.4 ggrn
    • 7.4.1 Invoking ggrn
  • 7.5 grap
  • 7.6 grefer
    • 7.6.1 Invoking grefer
  • 7.7 gsoelim
    • 7.7.1 Invoking gsoelim
• 8 Output Devices
  • 8.1 Special Characters
  • 8.2 grotty
    • 8.2.1 Invoking grotty
  • 8.3 grops
    • 8.3.1 Invoking grops
    • 8.3.2 Embedding POSTSCRIPT
  • 8.4 grodvi
    • 8.4.1 Invoking grodvi
  • 8.5 grolj4
    • 8.5.1 Invoking grolj4
  • 8.6 grolbp
    • 8.6.1 Invoking grolbp
  • 8.7 grohtml
    • 8.7.1 Invoking grohtml
  • 8.8 gxditview
    • 8.8.1 Invoking gxditview
• 9 File formats
  • 9.1 gtroff Output
    • 9.1.1 Output Format
    • 9.1.2 Device Control
    • 9.1.3 Drawing Functions
    • 9.1.4 Line Continuation
  • 9.2 Font Files
    • 9.2.1 `DESC' file format
    • 9.2.2 Font file format
• 10 Installation
• 11 Request and Escape Index
• 12 Operator Index
• 13 Register Index
• 14 Macro and String Index
• 15 Glyph Name Index
• 16 Font File Keyword Index
• 17 Program and File Index
• 18 Concept Index

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