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Copyright 2000-2020 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
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Copying and distribution of this file, with or without modification,
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are permitted in any medium without royalty provided the copyright
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notice and this notice are preserved.
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Ports of groff to non-POSIX environments
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Microsoft Windows
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Cygwin makes a groff package available.
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https://cygwin.com/
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Look for a convenient mirror site at the followung URL.
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https://cygwin.com/mirrors.html
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Cygwin maintains a port status page.
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https://cygwin.com/packages/summary/groff.html
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Cygwin, like most GNU/Linux distributions, separates groff build
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artifacts into multiple components, largely for dependency management.
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You may find the source package page of interest.
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https://cygwin.com/packages/summary/groff-src.html
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The port is maintained in a Git repository.
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https://cygwin.com/git-cygwin-packages/?p=git/cygwin-packages/groff.git
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grap
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Ted Faber has written an implementation of Kernighan & Bentley's grap
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language for typesetting graphs.
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http://www.lunabase.org/~faber/Vault/software/grap/
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unroff
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Per its README file,
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Unroff is a Scheme-based, programmable, extensible troff translator
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with a back-end for the Hypertext Markup Language. Unroff is free
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software and is distributed both as source and as precompiled
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binaries.
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https://www-rn.informatik.uni-bremen.de/software/unroff/
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Haart deroff
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Per its ReadMe.txt file,
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Deroff removes roff constructs from documents for the purpose of
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indexing, spell checking etc. My own implementation is a little
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smarter than traditional implementations, because it knows about
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certain -man and -mm macros. It is able to generate a word list for
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spell checking tools or omit headers for sentence analysis tools.
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https://caio.ueberalles.net/deroff/
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doclifter
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Per its web page,
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[doclifter lifts] documents in nroff markups to XML-DocBook.
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Lifting documents from presentation level to semantic level is hard,
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and a really good job requires human polishing. This tool aims to do
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everything that can be mechanized, and to preserve any troff-level
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information that might have structural implications in XML comments.
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This tool does the hard parts. TBL tables are translated into DocBook
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table markup, PIC into SVG, and EQN into MathML (relying on pic2svg
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and GNU eqn for the last two).
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http://catb.org/~esr/doclifter
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pic2plot
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pic2plot, part of the GNU plotutils package, can lift pic markup to SVG.
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The plotutils package is available at
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http://www.gnu.org/software/plotutils/
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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
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from
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http://www.agsm.edu.au/~bobm/odds+ends/scripts.html
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Description:
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- "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
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few simple grammar checks. The best way to see what it does is to
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run it as a sed script file (or files) on a text file and then
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compare the output file with the original.
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- "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
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of specified point size, and automatically flows the text around the
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new drop cap.
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- "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
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(mm) of AT&T, and so should be invoked with the Unix troff -mm flag;
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they should also work with the GNU troff -mm flag.
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* Thomas Baruchel <baruchel@libertysurf.fr> has developed Meta-tbl, a
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tbl postprocessor to manipulate table cells (like adding gray shades).
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The latest version can be found at
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http://perso.libertysurf.fr/baruchel/
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* gpresent, written by Bob Diertens <B.Diertens@Uva.nl>. From its
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README file:
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gpresent is a package for making presentations with groff and
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[a PDF viewer]. It consist[s] of a set of macros to be used with
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groff and a post-processor for manipulating the PostScript output of
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groff. Without the use of the PAUSE macro, it can also be used for
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making slides.
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It is available from
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https://bob.diertens.org/corner/useful/gpresent/
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* groff-pdfmark, written by Keith Marshall.
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Its home page describes it as providing "a suite of GNU roff macro
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packages, together with a Bourne shell driver script, designed to
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facilitate the creation of PDF files, using GNU roff as the primary
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typesetting engine."
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It is available from
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<https://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/groff-pdfmark>.
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Documentation
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Documentation of the AT&T implementations of the troff, tbl, pic, eqn,
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and refer programs can be found at the following site.
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https://www.troff.org/papers.html
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##### Editor settings
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Local Variables:
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fill-column: 72
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mode: text
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End:
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vim: set textwidth=72:
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