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Author: G. Branden Robinson <[email protected]>
AuthorDate: Sun Nov 6 04:38:01 2022 -0600
ANNOUNCE: Sync groff description w/ its home page.
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from there.
What is groff?
==============
-Groff (GNU roff) is a typesetting system that reads plain text input
+groff (GNU roff) is a typesetting system that reads plain text input
files that include formatting commands to produce output in PostScript,
PDF, HTML, or DVI formats or for display to a terminal. Formatting
commands can be low-level typesetting primitives or macros from a
-supplied set. Users may also write their own macros. All three may be
-combined.
-
-Present on most Unix systems owing to its long association with Unix
-manuals (including man pages), and notable for its use in the production
-of several best-selling software engineering texts, groff is capable of
-producing typographically sophisticated documents while consuming
-minimal system resources.
+supplied package. Users may also write their own macros. All three
+approaches can be combined.
+
+A reimplementation and extension of the typesetter from AT&T Unix, groff
+is present on most POSIX systems owing to its long association with Unix
+manuals (including man pages). It and its predecessor are notable for
+their production of several best-selling software engineering texts.
+groff is capable of producing typographically sophisticated documents
+while consuming minimal system resources.
https://www.gnu.org/software/groff/
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