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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 <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 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
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