Gnu troff manual

2 The GNU Troff Manual (), Doug McIlroy rewrote an extended and simplified version ofroffin the BCPL programming language. In , the Unix developers wanted to get a PDP, and to justify the cost, proposed the development of a document formatting system for the ATT patents division. This first formatting program was a reimplementa-. Groff: The GNU Implementation of troff, by Trent A. Fisher and Werner Lemberg, is the primary groff manual. You can browse it interactively with “info groff”. You can browse it interactively with “info groff”. Requests (The GNU Troff Manual) Next: Macros, Previous: Embedded Commands, Up: Embedded Commands. Requests. A request line begins with a control character, which is either a single quote ‘'’, the no.

2 The GNU Troff Manual (), Doug McIlroy rewrote an extended and simplified version ofroffin the BCPL programming language. In , the Unix developers wanted to get a PDP, and to justify the cost, proposed the development of a document formatting system for the ATT patents division. This first formatting program was a reimplementa-. Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, with the Front-Cover texts being “A GNU Manual,” and with the Back-Cover Texts as in (a) below. Groff: The GNU Implementation of troff, by Trent A. Fisher and Werner Lemberg, is the primary groff manual. You can browse it interactively with “info groff”. You can browse it interactively with “info groff”.

GROFF(1) General Commands Manual GROFF(1) NAME groff - front-end for the groff The command line is parsed according to the usual GNU convention. Troff: documentation of the Unix-V7 troff text processing utilities Trent A. Fisher's Troff Info. GNU Troff (Groff) Manuals Online. Last updated for groff version This manual (groff) is available in the following formats.