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13 Here are two ports using the gcc compiler and other GNU tools:
17 http://sources.redhat.com/cygwin/
19 Look for a convenient mirror site in
21 http://sources.redhat.com/cygwin/mirrors.html
23 At any of those mirrors, groff can be found in the directory
26 . Kees Zeelenberg <c.zeelenberg@hccnet.nl>:
28 http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/groffl.htm
30 This port includes recent versions of grap and deroff.
36 Binaries for Eli Zaretskii's port using the djgpp compiler are available
39 ftp://ftp.simtel.net/pub/simtelnet/gnu/djgpp/v2gnu/gro*b.zip
41 and its mirrors; for installation details please read `arch/djgpp/README'.
42 This port also runs on Windows 32 systems, except Windows 2000.
48 An implementation of Kernighan & Bentley's grap language for typesetting
49 graphs. Written by Ted Faber <faber@lunabase.org>. The actual version
52 http://www.lunabase.org/~faber/Vault/software/grap/
54 A djgpp port which runs on dos and most Windows 32 systems (Windows 95,
55 Windows 98, Windows NT) done by Kees Zeelenberg <c.zeelenberg@hccnet.nl>
58 ftp://ftp.simtel.net/pub/simtelnet/gnu/djgpp/v2apps/
60 It is intended to be used with the djgpp port of groff.
62 A Windows 32 port is included in the groff package available from
64 http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/
70 This utility program can convert plot graphics to either pic or gremlin
71 files. It has been written by Richard Murphey <richard-murphey@rice.edu>
72 and Daniel Senderowicz <daniel@synchrods.com> (who has added the gremlin
73 driver). The actual version can be found as
75 ftp://ftp.ffii.org/pub/groff/plot2dev-x.x.tar.gz
83 troffcvt is a translator that turns troff input into a form that can be
84 more easily processed. The troffcvt distribution comes with
85 postprocessors that turn troffcvt into various destination formats such
86 as HTML (Hypertext Markup Language), RTF (Rich Text Format) or plain
89 Note that you need a lot of additional packages to compile troffcvt;
90 everything is available from
92 http://www.primate.wisc.edu/software/troffcvt/
100 Unroff is a Scheme-based, programmable, extensible troff translator with
101 a back-end for the Hypertext Markup Language. Unroff is free software
102 and is distributed both as source and as precompiled binaries.
104 http://www.informatik.uni-bremen.de/~net/unroff/unroff.html
106 You need als Elk, the Scheme based Extension Language Kit, which is
109 http://www.informatik.uni-bremen.de/~net/elk
115 Deroff removes roff constructs from documents for the purpose of indexing,
118 Michael Haardt's <michael@moria.de> implementation is a little smarter
119 than traditional implementations, because it knows about certain -man and
120 -mm macros. It is able to generate a word list for spell checking tools
121 or omit headers for sentence analysis tools. It can further generate
122 cpp-style #line lines.
124 http://www.moria.de/~michael/deroff/
126 Version 1.6 compiled with DJGPP (for MS-DOS and all Windows 32 systems,
127 i.e. Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows NT) is available from
129 ftp://ftp.simtel.net/pub/simtelnet/gnu/djgpp/v2apps/
133 A Windows 32 port of version 1.8 is available from
135 http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/
137 David Frey <dfrey@debian.org> has also written a deroff implementation
138 for Debian; it is available from
140 ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/d/deroff/
146 This package contains beta support for a backend to convert files from
147 texinfo format to a troff input file (using the -me macros):
149 texi2html --init roff.init ...
153 http://savannah.nongnu.org/download/texi2html/
159 doclifter lifts troff macro markup to XML-Docbook. It doesn't do raw troff
160 at all well (raw troff has insufficient structural information) but it
161 handles manual pages, ms, mm, and me markup, producing clean lifts
162 to valid XML more than 96% of the time. pic markup is translated to SVG,
163 eqn markup to Presentation MathML.
165 doclifter with the -w option behaves as a portability checker and validator,
166 warning about constructs that aren't portable across *roff implementations
171 http://catb.org/~esr/doclifter
177 pic2plot, part of the GNU plotutils package, can lift pic markup to SVG.
178 The plotutils package is available at
180 http://www.gnu.org/software/plotutils/
186 . Ralph Corderoy's excellent page on troff:
190 There are links for virtually everything related to troff.
192 . Dr. Robert Hermann's groff gems are available from
194 http://www.eas.slu.edu/People/RBHerrmann/GROFF/index.html
196 At present there are examples for
198 o creating business cards
199 o using groff to make large format posters for presentations
201 . Robert Marks's collection of useful macros and scripts is available from
203 http://www.agsm.edu.au/~bobm/odds+ends/scripts.html
207 o `polish': Is a sed (= the Unix stream editor) script that does many
208 things to ASCII text. Amongst other things, it breaks lines at new
209 sentences, reduces upper-case acronyms by one point size, adds
210 diacriticals, changes simple quotes into smart quotes, and makes a few
211 simple grammar checks. The best way to see what it does is to run it
212 as a sed script file (or files) on a text file and then compare the
213 output file with the original.
215 o `DropCaps' is a troff script which replaces the initial letters of
216 paragraphs immediately after H1 and H2 headings with drop-capitals of
217 specified point size, and automatically flows the text around the new
220 o `AJM Header' is a set of troff macros used in production of the
221 Australian Journal of Management. They use the Memorandum Macros (mm)
222 of AT&T, and so should be invoked with the UNIX troff -mm flag; they
223 should also work with the GNU troff -mm flag.
225 . Various contributed stuff like additional font files, macro packages, and
226 documentation can be found at
228 http://groff.ffii.org/groff/contrib/
230 . Thomas Baruchel <baruchel@libertysurf.fr> has developed Meta-tbl, a tbl
231 postprocessor to manipulate table cells (like adding gray shades). The
232 latest version can be found at
234 http://perso.libertysurf.fr/baruchel/
236 . gpresent, written by Bob Diertens <bobd@science.uva.nl>. From the README
239 gpresent is a package for making presentation with groff and acroread.
240 It consist of a set of macros to be used with groff and a post-processor
241 for manipulating the PostScript output of groff. Without the use of the
242 PAUSE macro, it can also be used for making slides.
246 www.science.uva.nl/~bobd/useful/gpresent/
252 Many documents related to the original versions of troff, ditroff, pic,
253 and others can be accessed from the following web pages:
255 http://www.cs.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/cstr.html
256 http://www.cs.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/papers.html