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authorG. Branden Robinson <g.branden.robinson@gmail.com>2020-04-29 01:00:28 +1000
committerG. Branden Robinson <g.branden.robinson@gmail.com>2020-04-29 01:50:39 +1000
commit1dfbbf0b56964f75c589174680d02422d5328017 (patch)
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parent8e12f879267f2550e2ebab9ad8c9340796952821 (diff)
downloadgroff-git-1dfbbf0b56964f75c589174680d02422d5328017.tar.gz
Reflow or fix long lines in top-level docs.
This did not produce much churn except in README.MinGW, which seems to have been deliberately wrapped at 76 columns instead of 72--sorry. Also update (in INSTALL.REPO's case, add) editor settings.
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@@ -38,15 +38,16 @@ from
ftp://ftp.simtel.net/pub/simtelnet/gnu/djgpp/v2gnu/gro*b.zip
-and its mirrors; for installation details please read `arch/djgpp/README'.
-This port also runs on Windows 32 systems, except Windows 2000.
+and its mirrors; for installation details please read
+`arch/djgpp/README'. This port also runs on Windows 32 systems, except
+Windows 2000.
grap
----
An implementation of Kernighan & Bentley's grap language for typesetting
-graphs. Written by Ted Faber <faber@lunabase.org>. The actual version
+graphs. Written by Ted Faber <faber@lunabase.org>. The current version
can be found at
http://www.lunabase.org/~faber/Vault/software/grap/
@@ -68,9 +69,9 @@ plot2dev
--------
This utility program can convert plot graphics to either pic or gremlin
-files. It has been written by Richard Murphey <richard-murphey@rice.edu>
-and Daniel Senderowicz <daniel@synchrods.com> (who has added the gremlin
-driver). The actual version can be found as
+files. It has been written by Richard Murphey
+<richard-murphey@rice.edu> and Daniel Senderowicz <daniel@synchrods.com>
+(who has added the gremlin driver). The current version can be found as
ftp://ftp.ffii.org/pub/groff/plot2dev-x.x.tar.gz
@@ -80,11 +81,11 @@ troffcvt
From the web page:
- troffcvt is a translator that turns troff input into a form that can be
- more easily processed. The troffcvt distribution comes with
- postprocessors that turn troffcvt into various destination formats such
- as HTML (Hypertext Markup Language), RTF (Rich Text Format) or plain
- text.
+ troffcvt is a translator that turns troff input into a form that can
+ be more easily processed. The troffcvt distribution comes with
+ postprocessors that turn troffcvt into various destination formats
+ such as HTML (Hypertext Markup Language), RTF (Rich Text Format) or
+ plain text.
Note that you need a lot of additional packages to compile troffcvt;
everything is available from
@@ -97,13 +98,14 @@ unroff
From the README file:
- Unroff is a Scheme-based, programmable, extensible troff translator with
- a back-end for the Hypertext Markup Language. Unroff is free software
- and is distributed both as source and as precompiled binaries.
+ Unroff is a Scheme-based, programmable, extensible troff translator
+ with a back-end for the Hypertext Markup Language. Unroff is free
+ software and is distributed both as source and as precompiled
+ binaries.
http://www.informatik.uni-bremen.de/~net/unroff/unroff.html
-You need als Elk, the Scheme based Extension Language Kit, which is
+You also need Elk, the Scheme based Extension Language Kit, which is
available from
http://www.informatik.uni-bremen.de/~net/elk
@@ -112,14 +114,14 @@ available from
deroff
------
-Deroff removes roff constructs from documents for the purpose of indexing,
-spell checking etc.
+Deroff removes roff constructs from documents for the purpose of
+indexing, spell checking etc.
Michael Haardt's <michael@moria.de> implementation is a little smarter
-than traditional implementations, because it knows about certain -man and
--mm macros. It is able to generate a word list for spell checking tools
-or omit headers for sentence analysis tools. It can further generate
-cpp-style #line lines.
+than traditional implementations, because it knows about certain -man
+and -mm macros. It is able to generate a word list for spell checking
+tools or omit headers for sentence analysis tools. It can further
+generate cpp-style #line lines.
http://www.moria.de/~michael/deroff/
@@ -156,15 +158,15 @@ URL:
doclifter
---------
-doclifter lifts troff macro markup to XML-Docbook. It doesn't do raw troff
-at all well (raw troff has insufficient structural information) but it
-handles manual pages, ms, mm, and me markup, producing clean lifts
-to valid XML more than 96% of the time. pic markup is translated to SVG,
-eqn markup to Presentation MathML.
+doclifter lifts troff macro markup to XML-Docbook. It doesn't do raw
+troff at all well (raw troff has insufficient structural information)
+but it handles manual pages, ms, mm, and me markup, producing clean
+lifts to valid XML more than 96% of the time. pic markup is translated
+to SVG, eqn markup to Presentation MathML.
-doclifter with the -w option behaves as a portability checker and validator,
-warning about constructs that aren't portable across *roff implementations
-and viewers.
+doclifter with the -w option behaves as a portability checker and
+validator, warning about constructs that aren't portable across *roff
+implementations and viewers.
It is available from
@@ -198,7 +200,8 @@ miscellaneous
o creating business cards
o using groff to make large format posters for presentations
-. Robert Marks's collection of useful macros and scripts is available from
+. Robert Marks's collection of useful macros and scripts is available
+ from
http://www.agsm.edu.au/~bobm/odds+ends/scripts.html
@@ -207,40 +210,41 @@ miscellaneous
o `polish': Is a sed (= the Unix stream editor) script that does many
things to ASCII text. Amongst other things, it breaks lines at new
sentences, reduces upper-case acronyms by one point size, adds
- diacriticals, changes simple quotes into smart quotes, and makes a few
- simple grammar checks. The best way to see what it does is to run it
- as a sed script file (or files) on a text file and then compare the
- output file with the original.
+ diacriticals, changes simple quotes into smart quotes, and makes a
+ few simple grammar checks. The best way to see what it does is to
+ run it as a sed script file (or files) on a text file and then
+ compare the output file with the original.
o `DropCaps' is a troff script which replaces the initial letters of
- paragraphs immediately after H1 and H2 headings with drop-capitals of
- specified point size, and automatically flows the text around the new
- drop cap.
+ paragraphs immediately after H1 and H2 headings with drop-capitals
+ of specified point size, and automatically flows the text around the
+ new drop cap.
o `AJM Header' is a set of troff macros used in production of the
- Australian Journal of Management. They use the Memorandum Macros (mm)
- of AT&T, and so should be invoked with the Unix troff -mm flag; they
- should also work with the GNU troff -mm flag.
+ Australian Journal of Management. They use the Memorandum Macros
+ (mm) of AT&T, and so should be invoked with the Unix troff -mm flag;
+ they should also work with the GNU troff -mm flag.
-. Various contributed stuff like additional font files, macro packages, and
- documentation can be found at
+. Various contributed stuff like additional font files, macro packages,
+ and documentation can be found at
http://groff.ffii.org/groff/contrib/
-. Thomas Baruchel <baruchel@libertysurf.fr> has developed Meta-tbl, a tbl
- postprocessor to manipulate table cells (like adding gray shades). The
- latest version can be found at
+. Thomas Baruchel <baruchel@libertysurf.fr> has developed Meta-tbl, a
+ tbl postprocessor to manipulate table cells (like adding gray shades).
+ The latest version can be found at
http://perso.libertysurf.fr/baruchel/
-. gpresent, written by Bob Diertens <bobd@science.uva.nl>. From the README
- file:
+. gpresent, written by Bob Diertens <bobd@science.uva.nl>. From the
+ README file:
+
+ gpresent is a package for making presentation with groff and
+ acroread. It consist of a set of macros to be used with groff and a
+ post-processor for manipulating the PostScript output of groff.
+ Without the use of the PAUSE macro, it can also be used for making
+ slides.
- gpresent is a package for making presentation with groff and acroread.
- It consist of a set of macros to be used with groff and a post-processor
- for manipulating the PostScript output of groff. Without the use of the
- PAUSE macro, it can also be used for making slides.
-
It is available from
www.science.uva.nl/~bobd/useful/gpresent/
@@ -258,5 +262,7 @@ and others can be accessed from the following web pages:
##### Editor settings
Local Variables:
+fill-column: 72
mode: text
End:
+vim: set textwidth=72: