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