On Wednesday 14 Apr 2010, Prakhar Agarwal wrote:
> Recently, I came across troff [1] and I was wondering if someone has
>  used it before and how different it is from LaTeX. A GNU version.
>  GNU Roff [2] also available for this. For further details kindly
>  check the official website [3]. Is this thing dead?

More or less.  man(1) is the only significant command I can think of 
that still uses [tn]roff extensively.  Other than that, documents have 
shifted (mostly) to SGML and text formatting to LaTeX, or maybe one of 
the WYSIWYG word processors.

Regards,

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