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14 Here are two ports using the gcc compiler and other GNU tools:
18 http://sources.redhat.com/cygwin/
20 Look for a convenient mirror site in
22 http://sources.redhat.com/cygwin/mirrors.html
24 At any of those mirrors, groff can be found in the directory
27 . Kees Zeelenberg <c.zeelenberg@hccnet.nl>:
29 http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/groffl.htm
31 This port includes recent versions of grap and deroff.
36 Binaries for Eli Zaretskii's port using the djgpp compiler are available
39 ftp://ftp.simtel.net/pub/simtelnet/gnu/djgpp/v2gnu/gro*b.zip
41 and its mirrors; for installation details please read `arch/djgpp/README'.
42 This port also runs on Windows 32 systems, except Windows 2000.
47 An implementation of Kernighan & Bentley's grap language for typesetting
48 graphs. Written by Ted Faber <faber@lunabase.org>. The actual version
51 http://www.lunabase.org/~faber/Vault/software/grap/
53 A djgpp port which runs on dos and most Windows 32 systems (Windows 95,
54 Windows 98, Windows NT) done by Kees Zeelenberg <c.zeelenberg@hccnet.nl>
57 ftp://ftp.simtel.net/pub/simtelnet/gnu/djgpp/v2apps/
59 It is intended to be used with the djgpp port of groff.
61 A Windows 32 port is included in the groff package available from
63 http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/
68 This utility program can convert plot graphics to either pic or gremlin
69 files. It has been written by Richard Murphey <richard-murphey@rice.edu>
70 and Daniel Senderowicz <daniel@synchrods.com> (who has added the gremlin
71 driver). The actual version can be found as
73 ftp://ftp.ffii.org/pub/groff/plot2dev-x.x.tar.gz
80 troffcvt is a translator that turns troff input into a form that can be
81 more easily processed. The troffcvt distribution comes with
82 postprocessors that turn troffcvt into various destination formats such
83 as HTML (Hypertext Markup Language), RTF (Rich Text Format) or plain
86 Note that you need a lot of additional packages to compile troffcvt;
87 everything is available from
89 http://www.primate.wisc.edu/software/troffcvt/
96 Unroff is a Scheme-based, programmable, extensible troff translator with
97 a back-end for the Hypertext Markup Language. Unroff is free software
98 and is distributed both as source and as precompiled binaries.
100 http://www.informatik.uni-bremen.de/~net/unroff/unroff.html
102 You need als Elk, the Scheme based Extension Language Kit, which is
105 http://www.informatik.uni-bremen.de/~net/elk
110 Deroff removes roff constructs from documents for the purpose of indexing,
113 Michael Haardt's <michael@moria.de> implementation is a little smarter
114 than traditional implementations, because it knows about certain -man and
115 -mm macros. It is able to generate a word list for spell checking tools
116 or omit headers for sentence analysis tools. It can further generate
117 cpp-style #line lines.
119 http://www.moria.de/deroff/
121 Version 1.6 compiled with DJGPP (for MS-DOS and all Windows 32 systems,
122 i.e. Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows NT) is available from
124 ftp://ftp.simtel.net/pub/simtelnet/gnu/djgpp/v2apps/
128 A Windows 32 port of version 1.8 is available from
130 http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/
132 David Frey <dfrey@debian.org> has also written a deroff implementation
133 for Debian; it is available from
135 ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/d/deroff/
140 doclifter lifts troff macro markup to XML-Docbook. It doesn't do raw troff
141 at all well (raw troff has insufficient structural information) but it
142 handles manual pages, ms, mm, and me markup, producing clean lifts
143 to valid XML more than 96% of the time. pic markup is translated to SVG,
144 eqn markup to Presentation MathML.
146 doclifter with the -w option behaves as a portability checker and validator,
147 warning about constructs that aren't portable across *roff implementations
152 http://catb.org/~esr/doclifter
157 pic2plot, part of the GNU plotutils package, can lift pic markup to SVG.
158 The plotutils package is available at
160 http://www.gnu.org/software/plotutils/
165 . Ralph Corderoy's excellent page on troff:
169 There are links for virtually everything related to troff.
171 . Dr. Robert Hermann's groff gems are available from
173 http://www.eas.slu.edu/People/RBHerrmann/GROFF/index.html
175 At present there are examples for
177 o creating business cards
178 o using groff to make large format posters for presentations
180 . Robert Marks's collection of useful macros and scripts is available from
182 http://www.agsm.edu.au/~bobm/odds+ends/scripts.html
186 o `polish': Is a sed (= the Unix stream editor) script that does many
187 things to ASCII text. Amongst other things, it breaks lines at new
188 sentences, reduces upper-case acronyms by one point size, adds
189 diacriticals, changes simple quotes into smart quotes, and makes a few
190 simple grammar checks. The best way to see what it does is to run it
191 as a sed script file (or files) on a text file and then compare the
192 output file with the original.
194 o `DropCaps' is a troff script which replaces the initial letters of
195 paragraphs immediately after H1 and H2 headings with drop-capitals of
196 specified point size, and automatically flows the text around the new
199 o `AJM Header' is a set of troff macros used in production of the
200 Australian Journal of Management. They use the Memorandum Macros (mm)
201 of AT&T, and so should be invoked with the UNIX troff -mm flag; they
202 should also work with the GNU troff -mm flag.
204 . Thomas Baruchel <baruchel@libertysurf.fr> has developed Meta-tbl, a tbl
205 postprocessor to manipulate table cells (like adding gray shades). The
206 latest version can be found at
208 http://perso.libertysurf.fr/baruchel/
210 . gpresent, written by Bob Diertens <bobd@science.uva.nl>. From the README
213 gpresent is a package for making presentation with groff and acroread.
214 It consist of a set of macros to be used with groff and a post-processor
215 for manipulating the PostScript output of groff. Without the use of the
216 PAUSE macro, it can also be used for making slides.
220 www.science.uva.nl/~bobd/useful/gpresent/
226 Many documents related to the original versions of troff, ditroff, pic,
227 and others can be accessed from the following web pages:
229 http://www.cs.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/cstr.html
230 http://www.cs.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/papers.html