Copyright 2000, 2001, 2002, 2007 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. More stuff for groff ==================== Windows 32 ---------- Here are two ports using the gcc compiler and other GNU tools: . Cygwin: http://sources.redhat.com/cygwin/ Look for a convenient mirror site in http://sources.redhat.com/cygwin/mirrors.html At any of those mirrors, groff can be found in the directory latest/groff. . Kees Zeelenberg : http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/groffl.htm This port includes recent versions of grap and deroff. dos --- Binaries for Eli Zaretskii's port using the djgpp compiler are available 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. grap ---- An implementation of Kernighan & Bentley's grap language for typesetting graphs. Written by Ted Faber . The actual version can be found at http://www.lunabase.org/~faber/Vault/software/grap/ A djgpp port which runs on dos and most Windows 32 systems (Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows NT) done by Kees Zeelenberg is available from ftp://ftp.simtel.net/pub/simtelnet/gnu/djgpp/v2apps/ It is intended to be used with the djgpp port of groff. A Windows 32 port is included in the groff package available from http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/ plot2dev -------- This utility program can convert plot graphics to either pic or gremlin files. It has been written by Richard Murphey and Daniel Senderowicz (who has added the gremlin driver). The actual version can be found as ftp://ftp.ffii.org/pub/groff/plot2dev-x.x.tar.gz 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. Note that you need a lot of additional packages to compile troffcvt; everything is available from http://www.primate.wisc.edu/software/troffcvt/ 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. http://www.informatik.uni-bremen.de/~net/unroff/unroff.html You need als Elk, the Scheme based Extension Language Kit, which is available from http://www.informatik.uni-bremen.de/~net/elk deroff ------ Deroff removes roff constructs from documents for the purpose of indexing, spell checking etc. Michael Haardt's 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. http://www.moria.de/deroff/ Version 1.6 compiled with DJGPP (for MS-DOS and all Windows 32 systems, i.e. Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows NT) is available from ftp://ftp.simtel.net/pub/simtelnet/gnu/djgpp/v2apps/ and its mirrors. A Windows 32 port of version 1.8 is available from http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/ David Frey has also written a deroff implementation for Debian; it is available from ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/d/deroff/ 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 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 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 ------------- Many documents related to the original versions of troff, ditroff, pic, and others can be accessed from the following web pages: http://www.cs.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/cstr.html http://www.cs.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/papers.html