Copyright 2000-2020 Free Software Foundation, Inc. Copying and distribution of this file, with or without modification, are permitted in any medium without royalty provided the copyright notice and this notice are preserved. Ports of groff to non-POSIX environments ======================================== Microsoft Windows ----------------- Cygwin makes a groff package available. https://cygwin.com/ Look for a convenient mirror site at the followung URL. https://cygwin.com/mirrors.html Cygwin maintains a port status page. https://cygwin.com/packages/summary/groff.html Cygwin, like most GNU/Linux distributions, separates groff build artifacts into multiple components, largely for dependency management. You may find the source package page of interest. https://cygwin.com/packages/summary/groff-src.html The port is maintained in a Git repository. https://cygwin.com/git-cygwin-packages/?p=git/cygwin-packages/groff.git grap ---- Ted Faber has written an implementation of Kernighan & Bentley's grap language for typesetting graphs. http://www.lunabase.org/~faber/Vault/software/grap/ troffcvt -------- Per its 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. http://www.snake.net/software/troffcvt/ unroff ------ Per its 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. https://www-rn.informatik.uni-bremen.de/software/unroff/ Haart deroff ------------ Per its ReadMe.txt file, Deroff removes roff constructs from documents for the purpose of indexing, spell checking etc. My own 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. https://caio.ueberalles.net/deroff/ doclifter --------- Per its web page, [doclifter lifts] documents in nroff markups to XML-DocBook. Lifting documents from presentation level to semantic level is hard, and a really good job requires human polishing. This tool aims to do everything that can be mechanized, and to preserve any troff-level information that might have structural implications in XML comments. This tool does the hard parts. TBL tables are translated into DocBook table markup, PIC into SVG, and EQN into MathML (relying on pic2svg and GNU eqn for the last two). http://catb.org/~esr/doclifter pic2plot -------- pic2plot, part of the GNU plotutils package, can lift pic markup to SVG. The plotutils package is available at http://www.gnu.org/software/plotutils/ Miscellaneous ------------- . Ralph Corderoy's excellent page on troff: www.troff.org There are links for virtually everything related to troff. . Dr. Robert Hermann's groff gems are available from http://www.eas.slu.edu/People/RBHerrmann/GROFF/index.html At present there are examples for 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 http://www.agsm.edu.au/~bobm/odds+ends/scripts.html Description: 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. 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. 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. . Thomas Baruchel 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 . 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. It is available from www.science.uva.nl/~bobd/useful/gpresent/ Documentation ------------- Documentation of the AT&T implementations of the troff, tbl, pic, eqn, and refer programs can be found at the following site. https://www.troff.org/papers.html ##### Editor settings Local Variables: fill-column: 72 mode: text End: vim: set textwidth=72: