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GROFF_DIFF(7) GROFF_DIFF(7)
NAME
groff_diff - differences between GNU troff and classical troff
DESCRIPTION
This manual page describes the language differences between groff, the GNU roff text processing sys-tem system
tem and the classical roff formatter of the freely available Unix 7 of the 1970s, documented in the
Troff User's Manual by Osanna and Kernighan. This inludes the roff language as well as the interme-diate intermediate
diate output format (troff output).
The section SEE ALSO gives pointers to both the classical roff and the modern groff documentation.
GROFF LANGUAGE
In this section, all additional features of groff compared to the classical Unix 7 troff are
described in detail.
Long names
The names of number registers, fonts, strings/macros/diversions, special characters (glyphs), and
colors can be of any length. In escape sequences, additionally to the classical (xx construction for
a two-character name, you can use [xxx] for a name of arbitrary length.
\[xxx] Print the special character (glyph) called xxx.
\[comp1 comp2 ...]
Print composite glyph consisting of multiple components. Example: `\[A ho]' is capital letter
A with ogonek which finally maps to glyph name `u0041_0328'. See the groff info file for
details how a glyph name for a composite glyph is constructed, and groff_char(7) for list of
glyph name components used composite glyph names.
\f[xxx]
Set font xxx. Additionally, \f[] is a new syntax equal to \fP, i.e., to return to the previ-ous previous
ous font.
\*[xxx arg1 arg2 ...]
Interpolate string xxx, taking arg1, arg2, ... as arguments.
\n[xxx]
Interpolate number register xxx.
Fractional pointsizes
A scaled point is equal to 1/sizescale points, where sizescale is specified in the DESC file (1 by
default). There is a new scale indicator z that has the effect of multiplying by sizescale.
Requests and escape sequences in troff interpret arguments that represent a pointsize as being in
units of scaled points, but they evaluate each such argument using a default scale indicator of z.
Arguments treated in this way are the argument to the ps request, the third argument to the cs
request, the second and fourth arguments to the tkf request, the argument to the \H escape sequence,
and those variants of the \s escape sequence that take a numeric expression as their argument.
For example, suppose sizescale is 1000; then a scaled point will be equivalent to a millipoint; the
call .ps 10.25 is equivalent to .ps 10.25z and so sets the pointsize to 10250 scaled points, which is
equal to 10.25 points.
The number register \n[.s] returns the pointsize in points as decimal fraction. There is also a new
number register \n[.ps] that returns the pointsize in scaled points.
It would make no sense to use the z scale indicator in a numeric expression whose default scale indi-cator indicator
cator was neither u nor z, and so troff disallows this. Similarly it would make no sense to use a
scaling indicator other than z or u in a numeric expression whose default scale indicator was z, and
so troff disallows this as well.
There is also new scale indicator s which multiplies by the number of units in a scaled point. So,
for example, \n[.ps]s is equal to 1m. Be sure not to confuse the s and z scale indicators.
Numeric expressions
Spaces are permitted in a number expression within parentheses.
M indicates a scale of 100ths of an em. f indicates a scale of 65536 units, providing fractions for
color definitions with the defcolor request. For example, 0.5f = 32768u.
e1>?e2 The maximum of e1 and e2.
e1<?e2 The minimum of e1 and e2.
(c;e) Evaluate e using c as the default scaling indicator. If c is missing, ignore scaling indica-
tors in the evaluation of e.
New escape sequences
\A'anything'
This expands to 1 or 0 resp., depending on whether anything is or is not acceptable as the
name of a string, macro, diversion, number register, environment, font, or color. It will
return 0 if anything is empty. This is useful if you want to lookup user input in some sort
of associative table.
\B'anything'
This expands to 1 or 0 resp., depending on whether anything is or is not a valid numeric
expression. It will return 0 if anything is empty.
\C'xxx'
Typeset glyph named xxx. Normally it is more convenient to use \[xxx]. But \C has the advan-tage advantage
tage that it is compatible with recent versions of UNIX and is available in compatibility
mode.
\E This is equivalent to an escape character, but it is not interpreted in copy-mode. For exam-ple, example,
ple, strings to start and end superscripting could be defined like this
.ds { \v'-.3m'\s'\En[.s]*6u/10u'
.ds } \s0\v'.3m'
The use of \E ensures that these definitions will work even if \*{ gets interpreted in copy-mode copymode
mode (for example, by being used in a macro argument).
\Ff
\F(fm
\F[fam]
Change font family. This is the same as the fam request. \F[] switches back to the previous
color (note that \FP won't work; it selects font family `P' instead).
\mx
\m(xx
\m[xxx]
Set drawing color. \m[] switches back to the previous color.
\Mx
\M(xx
\M[xxx]
Set background color for filled objects drawn with the \D'...' commands. \M[] switches back
to the previous color.
\N'n' Typeset the glyph with index n in the current font. n can be any integer. Most devices only
have glyphs with indices between 0 and 255. If the current font does not contain a glyph with
that code, special fonts will not be searched. The \N escape sequence can be conveniently
used in conjunction with the char request, for example
.char \[phone] \f(ZD\N'37'
The index of each glyph is given in the fourth column in the font description file after the
charset command. It is possible to include unnamed glyphs in the font description file by
using a name of ---; the \N escape sequence is the only way to use these.
\On
\O[n] Suppressing troff output. The escapes \02, \O3, \O4, and \O5 are intended for internal use by
grohtml.
\O0 Disable any ditroff glyphs from being emitted to the device driver, provided that the
escape occurs at the outer level (see \O3 and \O4).
\O1 Enable output of glyphs, provided that the escape occurs at the outer level.
\O0 and \O1 also reset the registers \n[opminx], \n[opminy], \n[opmaxx], and \n[opmaxy]
to -1. These four registers mark the top left and bottom right hand corners of a box
which encompasses all written glyphs.
\O2 Provided that the escape occurs at the outer level, enable output of glyphs and also
write out to stderr the page number and four registers encompassing the glyphs previ-ously previously
ously written since the last call to \O.
\O3 Begin a nesting level. At start-up, troff is at outer level. This is really an inter-nal internal
nal mechanism for grohtml while producing images. They are generated by running the
troff source through troff to the postscript device and ghostscript to produce images
in PNG format. The \O3 escape will start a new page if the device is not html (to
reduce the possibility of images crossing a page boundary).
\O4 End a nesting level.
\O5[Pfilename]
This escape is grohtml specific. Provided that this escape occurs at the outer nesting
level, write filename to stderr. The position of the image, P, must be specified and
must be one of l, r, c, or i (left, right, centered, inline). filename will be associ-ated associated
ated with the production of the next inline image.
\R'name +-n'
This has the same effect as
.nr name +-n
\s(nn
\s+-(nn
Set the point size to nn points; nn must be exactly two digits.
\s[+-n]
\s+-[n]
\s'+-n'
\s+-'n'
Set the point size to n scaled points; n is a numeric expression with a default scale indica-tor indicator
tor of z.
\Vx
\V(xx
\V[xxx]
Interpolate the contents of the environment variable xxx, as returned by getenv(3). \V is
interpreted in copy-mode.
\Yx
\Y(xx
\Y[xxx]
This is approximately equivalent to \X'\*[xxx]'. However the contents of the string or macro
xxx are not interpreted; also it is permitted for xxx to have been defined as a macro and thus
contain newlines (it is not permitted for the argument to \X to contain newlines). The inclu-sion inclusion
sion of newlines requires an extension to the UNIX troff output format, and will confuse driv-ers drivers
ers that do not know about this extension.
\Z'anything'
Print anything and then restore the horizontal and vertical position; anything may not contain
tabs or leaders.
\$0 The name by which the current macro was invoked. The als request can make a macro have more
than one name.
\$* In a macro or string, the concatenation of all the arguments separated by spaces.
\$@ In a macro or string, the concatenation of all the arguments with each surrounded by double
quotes, and separated by spaces.
\$(nn
\$[nnn]
In a macro or string, this gives the nn-th or nnn-th argument. Macros and strings can have an
unlimited number of arguments.
\?anything\?
When used in a diversion, this will transparently embed anything in the diversion. anything
is read in copy mode. When the diversion is reread, anything will be interpreted. anything
may not contain newlines; use \! if you want to embed newlines in a diversion. The escape
sequence \? is also recognised in copy mode and turned into a single internal code; it is this
code that terminates anything. Thus
.nr x 1
.nf
.di d
\?\\?\\\\?\\\\\\\\nx\\\\?\\?\?
.di
.nr x 2
.di e
.d
.di
.nr x 3
.di f
.e
.di
.nr x 4
.f
will print 4.
\/ This increases the width of the preceding glyph so that the spacing between that glyph and the
following glyph will be correct if the following glyph is a roman glyph. It is a good idea to
use this escape sequence whenever an italic glyph is immediately followed by a roman glyph
without any intervening space.
\, This modifies the spacing of the following glyph so that the spacing between that glyph and
the preceding glyph will correct if the preceding glyph is a roman glyph. It is a good idea
to use this escape sequence whenever a roman glyph is immediately followed by an italic glyph
without any intervening space.
\) Like \& except that it behaves like a character declared with the cflags request to be trans-parent transparent
parent for the purposes of end-of-sentence recognition.
\~ This produces an unbreakable space that stretches like a normal inter-word space when a line
is adjusted.
\: This causes the insertion of a zero-width break point. It is equal to \% within a word but
without insertion of a soft hyphen character.
\# Everything up to and including the next newline is ignored. This is interpreted in copy mode.
It is like \" except that \" does not ignore the terminating newline.
New requests
.aln xx yy
Create an alias xx for number register object named yy. The new name and the old name will be
exactly equivalent. If yy is undefined, a warning of type reg will be generated, and the
request will be ignored.
.als xx yy
Create an alias xx for request, string, macro, or diversion object named yy. The new name and
the old name will be exactly equivalent (it is similar to a hard rather than a soft link). If
yy is undefined, a warning of type mac will be generated, and the request will be ignored.
The de, am, di, da, ds, and as requests only create a new object if the name of the macro,
diversion or string diversion is currently undefined or if it is defined to be a request; nor-mally normally
mally they modify the value of an existing object.
.am1 xx yy
Similar to .am, but compatibility mode is switched off during execution. To be more precise,
a `compatibility save' token is inserted at the beginning of the macro addition, and a `com-patibility `compatibility
patibility restore' token at the end. As a consequence, the requests am, am1, de, and de1 can
be intermixed freely since the compatibility save/restore tokens only affect the macro parts
defined by .am1 and .ds1.
.ami xx yy
Append to macro indirectly. See the dei request below for more information.
.ami1 xx yy
Same as the ami request but compatibility mode is switched off during execution.
.as1 xx yy
Similar to .as, but compatibility mode is switched off during expansion. To be more precise,
a `compatibility save' token is inserted at the beginning of the string, and a `compatibility
restore' token at the end. As a consequence, the requests as, as1, ds, and ds1 can be inter-mixed intermixed
mixed freely since the compatibility save/restore tokens only affect the (sub)strings defined
by as1 and ds1.
.asciify xx
This request `unformats' the diversion xx in such a way that ASCII and space characters (and
some escape sequences) that were formatted and diverted into xx will be treated like ordinary
input characters when xx is reread. Useful for diversions in conjunction with the .writem
request. It can be also used for gross hacks; for example, this
.tr @.
.di x
@nr n 1
.br
.di
.tr @@
.asciify x
.x
will set register n to 1. Note that glyph information (font, font size, etc.) is not pre-served; preserved;
served; use .unformat instead.
.backtrace
Print a backtrace of the input stack on stderr.
.blm xx
Set the blank line macro to xx. If there is a blank line macro, it will be invoked when a
blank line is encountered instead of the usual troff behaviour.
.box xx
.boxa xx
These requests are similar to the di and da requests with the exception that a partially
filled line will not become part of the diversion (i.e., the diversion always starts with a
new line) but restored after ending the diversion, discarding the partially filled line which
possibly comes from the diversion.
.break Break out of a while loop. See also the while and continue requests. Be sure not to confuse
this with the br request.
.brp This is the same as \p.
.cflags n c1 c2...
Characters c1, c2,... have properties determined by n, which is ORed from the following:
1 The character ends sentences (initially characters .?! have this property).
2 Lines can be broken before the character (initially no characters have this property);
a line will not be broken at a character with this property unless the characters on
each side both have non-zero hyphenation codes.
4 Lines can be broken after the character (initially characters -\[hy]\[em] have this
property); a line will not be broken at a character with this property unless the char-acters characters
acters on each side both have non-zero hyphenation codes.
8 The character overlaps horizontally (initially characters \[ul]\[rn]\[ru]\[radi-calex]\[sqrtex] \[ul]\[rn]\[ru]\[radicalex]\[sqrtex]
calex]\[sqrtex] have this property).
16 The character overlaps vertically (initially character \[br] has this property).
32 An end-of-sentence character followed by any number of characters with this property
will be treated as the end of a sentence if followed by a newline or two spaces; in
other words the character is transparent for the purposes of end-of-sentence recogni-tion; recognition;
tion; this is the same as having a zero space factor in TeX (initially characters
"')]*\(dg\(rq have this property).
.char c string
Define glyph c to be string. Every time glyph c needs to be printed, string will be processed
in a temporary environment and the result will be wrapped up into a single object. Compati-bility Compatibility
bility mode will be turned off and the escape character will be set to \ while string is being
processed. Any emboldening, constant spacing or track kerning will be applied to this object
rather than to individual glyphs in string.
A glyph defined by this request can be used just like a normal glyph provided by the output
device. In particular other characters can be translated to it with the tr request; it can be
made the leader character by the lc request; repeated patterns can be drawn with the character
using the \l and \L escape sequences; words containing the character can be hyphenated cor-rectly, correctly,
rectly, if the hcode request is used to give the character a hyphenation code.
There is a special anti-recursion feature: Use of glyph within the glyph's definition will be
handled like normal glyphs not defined with char.
A glyph definition can be removed with the rchar request.
.chop xx
Chop the last element off macro, string, or diversion xx. This is useful for removing the
newline from the end of diversions that are to be interpolated as strings.
.close stream
Close the stream named stream; stream will no longer be an acceptable argument to the write
request. See the open request.
.composite glyph1 glyph2
Map glyph name glyph1 to glyph name glyph2 if it is used in \[...] with more than one compo-nent. component.
nent.
.continue
Finish the current iteration of a while loop. See also the while and break requests.
.color n
If n is non-zero or missing, enable colors (this is the default), otherwise disable them.
.cp n If n is non-zero or missing, enable compatibility mode, otherwise disable it. In compatibil-ity compatibility
ity mode, long names are not recognised, and the incompatibilities caused by long names do not
arise.
.defcolor xxx scheme color_components
Define color. scheme can be one of the following values: rgb (three components), cym (three
components), cmyk (four components), and gray or grey (one component). Color components can
be given either as a hexadecimal string or as positive decimal integers in the range 0-65535.
A hexadecimal string contains all color components concatenated; it must start with either #
or ##. The former specifies hex values in the range 0-255 (which are internally multiplied
by 257), the latter in the range 0-65535. Examples: #FFC0CB (pink), ##ffff0000ffff (magenta).
A new scaling indicator f has been introduced which multiplies its value by 65536; this makes
it convenient to specify color components as fractions in the range 0 to 1. Example:
.defcolor darkgreen rgb 0.1f 0.5f 0.2f
Note that f is the default scaling indicator for the defcolor request, thus the above state-ment statement
ment is equivalent to
.defcolor darkgreen rgb 0.1 0.5 0.2
The color named default (which is device-specific) can't be redefined. It is possible that
the default color for \M and \m is not the same.
.de1 xx yy
Similar to .de, but compatibility mode is switched off during execution. On entry, the cur-rent current
rent compatibility mode is saved and restored at exit.
.dei xx yy
Define macro indirectly. The following example
.ds xx aa
.ds yy bb
.dei xx yy
is equivalent to
.de aa bb
.dei1 xx yy
Similar to the dei request but compatibility mode is switched off during execution.
.do xxx
Interpret .xxx with compatibility mode disabled. For example,
.do fam T
would have the same effect as
.fam T
except that it would work even if compatibility mode had been enabled. Note that the previous
compatibility mode is restored before any files sourced by xxx are interpreted.
.ds1 xx yy
Similar to .ds, but compatibility mode is switched off during expansion. To be more precise,
a `compatibility save' token is inserted at the beginning of the string, and a `compatibility
restore' token at the end.
.ecs Save current escape character.
.ecr Restore escape character saved with ecs. Without a previous call to ecs, `\' will be the new
escape character.
.evc xx
Copy the contents of environment xx to the current environment. No pushing or popping of
environments will be done.
.fam xx
Set the current font family to xx. The current font family is part of the current environ-ment. environment.
ment. If xx is missing, switch back to previous font family. The value at start-up is `T'.
See the description of the sty request for more information on font families.
.fchar c string
Define fallback glyph c to be string. The syntax of this request is the same as the char
request; the only difference is that a glyph defined with char hides the glyph with the same
name in the current font, whereas a glyph defined with fchar is checked only if the particular
glyph isn't found in the current font. This test happens before checking special fonts.
.fcolor c
Set the fill color to c. If c is missing, switch to the previous fill color.
.fschar f c string
Define fallback glyph c for font f to be string. The syntax of this request is the same as
the char request (with an additional argument to specify the font); a glyph defined with
fschar is searched after the list of fonts declared with the fspecial request but before the
list of fonts declared with special.
.fspecial f s1 s2...
When the current font is f, fonts s1, s2,... will be special, that is, they will searched for
glyphs not in the current font. Any fonts specified in the special request will be searched
after fonts specified in the fspecial request. Without argument, reset the list of global
special fonts to be empty.
.ftr f g
Translate font f to g. Whenever a font named f is referred to in an \f escape sequence, in
the F and S conditional operators, or in the ft, ul, bd, cs, tkf, special, fspecial, fp, or
sty requests, font g will be used. If g is missing, or equal to f then font f will not be
translated.
.gcolor c
Set the glyph color to c. If c is missing, switch to the previous glyph color.
.hcode c1 code1 c2 code2...
Set the hyphenation code of character c1 to code1 and that of c2 to code2. A hyphenation code
must be a single input character (not a special character) other than a digit or a space.
Initially each lower-case letter a-z has a hyphenation code, which is itself, and each upper-case uppercase
case letter A-Z has a hyphenation code which is the lower-case version of itself. See also
the hpf request.
.hla lang
Set the current hyphenation language to lang. Hyphenation exceptions specified with the hw
request and hyphenation patterns specified with the hpf request are both associated with the
current hyphenation language. The hla request is usually invoked by the troffrc file.
.hlm n Set the maximum number of consecutive hyphenated lines to n. If n is negative, there is no
maximum. The default value is -1. This value is associated with the current environment.
Only lines output from an environment count towards the maximum associated with that environ-ment. environment.
ment. Hyphens resulting from \% are counted; explicit hyphens are not.
.hpf file
Read hyphenation patterns from file; this will be searched for in the same way that name.tmac
is searched for when the -mname option is specified. It should have the same format as (sim-ple) (simple)
ple) TeX patterns files. More specifically, the following scanning rules are implemented.
• A percent sign starts a comment (up to the end of the line) even if preceded by a back-slash. backslash.
slash.
• No support for `digraphs' like \$.
• ^^xx (x is 0-9 or a-f) and ^^x (character code of x in the range 0-127) are recognized;
other use of ^ causes an error.
• No macro expansion.
• hpf checks for the expression \patterns{...} (possibly with whitespace before and after
the braces). Everything between the braces is taken as hyphenation patterns. Conse-quently, Consequently,
quently, { and } are not allowed in patterns.
• Similarly, \hyphenation{...} gives a list of hyphenation exceptions.
• \endinput is recognized also.
• For backwards compatibility, if \patterns is missing, the whole file is treated as a
list of hyphenation patterns (only recognizing the % character as the start of a com-ment). comment).
ment).
Use the hpfcode request to map the encoding used in hyphenation patterns files to groff's
input encoding.
The set of hyphenation patterns is associated with the current language set by the hla
request. The hpf request is usually invoked by the troffrc file; a second call replaces the
old patterns with the new ones.
.hpfa file
The same as hpf except that the hyphenation patterns from file are appended to the patterns
already loaded in the current language.
.hpfcode a b c d ...
After reading a hyphenation patterns file with the hpf or hpfa request, convert all characters
with character code a in the recently read patterns to character code b, character code c
to d, etc. Initially, all character codes map to themselves. The arguments of hpfcode must
be integers in the range 0 to 255. Note that it is even possible to use character codes which
are invalid in groff otherwise.
.hym n Set the hyphenation margin to n: when the current adjustment mode is not b, the line will not
be hyphenated if the line is no more than n short. The default hyphenation margin is 0. The
default scaling indicator for this request is m. The hyphenation margin is associated with
the current environment. The current hyphenation margin is available in the \n[.hym] regis-ter. register.
ter.
.hys n Set the hyphenation space to n: when the current adjustment mode is b don't hyphenate the line
if the line can be justified by adding no more than n extra space to each word space. The
default hyphenation space is 0. The default scaling indicator for this request is m. The
hyphenation space is associated with the current environment. The current hyphenation space
is available in the \n[.hys] register.
.itc n macro
Variant of .it for which a line interrupted with \c counts as one input line.
.kern n
If n is non-zero or missing, enable pairwise kerning, otherwise disable it.
.length xx string
Compute the length of string and return it in the number register xx (which is not necessarily
defined before).
.linetabs n
If n is non-zero or missing, enable line-tabs mode, otherwise disable it (which is the
default). In line-tabs mode, tab distances are computed relative to the (current) output
line. Otherwise they are taken relative to the input line. For example, the following
.ds x a\t\c
.ds y b\t\c
.ds z c
.ta 1i 3i
\*x
\*y
\*z
yields
a b c
In line-tabs mode, the same code gives
a b c
Line-tabs mode is associated with the current environment; the read-only number register
\n[.linetabs] is set to 1 if in line-tabs mode, and 0 otherwise.
.mso file
The same as the so request except that file is searched for in the same directories as macro
files for the the -m command line option. If the file name to be included has the form
name.tmac and it isn't found, mso tries to include tmac.name instead and vice versa.
.nop anything
Execute anything. This is similar to `.if 1'.
.nroff Make the n built-in condition true and the t built-in condition false. This can be reversed
using the troff request.
.open stream filename
Open filename for writing and associate the stream named stream with it. See also the close
and write requests.
.opena stream filename
Like open, but if filename exists, append to it instead of truncating it.
.output string
Emit string directly to the intermediate output (subject to copy-mode interpretation); this is
similar to \! used at the top level. An initial double quote in string is stripped off to
allow initial blanks.
.pnr Print the names and contents of all currently defined number registers on stderr.
.psbb filename
Get the bounding box of a PostScript image filename. This file must conform to Adobe's Docu-ment Document
ment Structuring Conventions; the command looks for a %%BoundingBox comment to extract the
bounding box values. After a successful call, the coordinates (in PostScript units) of the
lower left and upper right corner can be found in the registers \n[llx], \n[lly], \n[urx], and
\n[ury], respectively. If some error has occurred, the four registers are set to zero.
.pso command
This behaves like the so request except that input comes from the standard output of command.
.ptr Print the names and positions of all traps (not including input line traps and diversion
traps) on stderr. Empty slots in the page trap list are printed as well, because they can
affect the priority of subsequently planted traps.
.pvs +-n
Set the post-vertical line space to n; default scale indicator is p. This value will be added
to each line after it has been output. With no argument, the post-vertical line space is set
to its previous value.
The total vertical line spacing consists of four components: .vs and \x with a negative value
which are applied before the line is output, and .pvs and \x with a positive value which are
applied after the line is output.
.rchar c1 c2...
Remove the definitions of glyphs c1, c2,... This undoes the effect of a char request.
.return
Within a macro, return immediately. If called with an argument, return twice, namely from the
current macro and from the macro one level higher. No effect otherwise.
.rfschar c1 c2...
Remove the font-specific definitions of glyphs c1, c2,... This undoes the effect of a fschar
request.
.rj
.rj n Right justify the next n input lines. Without an argument right justify the next input line.
The number of lines to be right justified is available in the \n[.rj] register. This implic-itly implicitly
itly does .ce 0. The ce request implicitly does .rj 0.
.rnn xx yy
Rename number register xx to yy.
.schar c string
Define global fallback glyph c to be string. The syntax of this request is the same as the
char request; a glyph defined with schar is searched after the list of fonts declared with the
special request but before the mounted special fonts.
.shc c Set the soft hyphen character to c. If c is omitted, the soft hyphen character will be set to
the default \(hy. The soft hyphen character is the glyph which will be inserted when a word
is hyphenated at a line break. If the soft hyphen character does not exist in the font of the
glyph immediately preceding a potential break point, then the line will not be broken at that
point. Neither definitions (specified with the char request) nor translations (specified with
the tr request) are considered when finding the soft hyphen character.
.shift n
In a macro, shift the arguments by n positions: argument i becomes argument i-n; arguments 1
to n will no longer be available. If n is missing, arguments will be shifted by 1. Shifting
by negative amounts is currently undefined.
.sizes s1 s2...sn [0]
This command is similar to the sizes command of a DESC file. It sets the available font sizes
for the current font to s1, s2,..., sn scaled points. The list of sizes can be terminated by
an optional 0. Each si can also be a range of sizes m-n. Contrary to the font file command,
the list can't extend over more than a single line.
.special s1 s2...
Fonts s1, s2, are special and will be searched for glyphs not in the current font. Without
arguments, reset the list of special fonts to be empty.
.spreadwarn limit
Make troff emit a warning if the additional space inserted for each space between words in an
output line is larger or equal to limit. A negative value is changed to zero; no argument
toggles the warning on and off without changing limit. The default scaling indicator is m.
At startup, spreadwarn is deactivated, and limit is set to 3m. For example, .spreadwarn 0.2m
will cause a warning if troff must add 0.2m or more for each interword space in a line. This
request is active only if text is justified to both margins (using .ad b).
.sty n f
Associate style f with font position n. A font position can be associated either with a font
or with a style. The current font is the index of a font position and so is also either a
font or a style. When it is a style, the font that is actually used is the font the name of
which is the concatenation of the name of the current family and the name of the current
style. For example, if the current font is 1 and font position 1 is associated with style R
and the current font family is T, then font TR will be used. If the current font is not a
style, then the current family is ignored. When the requests cs, bd, tkf, uf, or fspecial are
applied to a style, then they will instead be applied to the member of the current family cor-responding corresponding
responding to that style. The default family can be set with the -f option. The styles com-mand command
mand in the DESC file controls which font positions (if any) are initially associated with
styles rather than fonts.
.substring xx n1 [n2]
Replace the string named xx with the substring defined by the indices n1 and n2. The first
character in the string has index 0. If n2 is omitted, it is taken to be equal to the
string's length. If the index value n1 or n2 is negative, it will be counted from the end of
the string, going backwards: The last character has index -1, the character before the last
character has index -2, etc.
.tkf f s1 n1 s2 n2
Enable track kerning for font f. When the current font is f the width of every glyph will be
increased by an amount between n1 and n2; when the current point size is less than or equal to
s1 the width will be increased by n1; when it is greater than or equal to s2 the width will be
increased by n2; when the point size is greater than or equal to s1 and less than or equal to
s2 the increase in width is a linear function of the point size.
.tm1 string
Similar to the tm request, string is read in copy mode and written on the standard error, but
an initial double quote in string is stripped off to allow initial blanks.
.tmc string
Similar to tm1 but without writing a final newline.
.trf filename
Transparently output the contents of file filename. Each line is output as if preceded by \!;
however, the lines are not subject to copy-mode interpretation. If the file does not end with
a newline, then a newline will be added. For example, you can define a macro x containing the
contents of file f, using
.di x
.trf f
.di
Unlike with the cf request, the file cannot contain characters such as NUL that are not legal
troff input characters.
.trin abcd
This is the same as the tr request except that the asciify request will use the character code
(if any) before the character translation. Example:
.trin ax
.di xxx
a
.br
.di
.xxx
.trin aa
.asciify xxx
.xxx
The result is x a. Using tr, the result would be x x.
.trnt abcd
This is the same as the tr request except that the translations do not apply to text that is
transparently throughput into a diversion with \!. For example,
.tr ab
.di x
\!.tm a
.di
.x
will print b; if trnt is used instead of tr it will print a.
.troff Make the n built-in condition false, and the t built-in condition true. This undoes the
effect of the nroff request.
.unformat xx
This request `unformats' the diversion xx. Contrary to the .asciify request, which tries to
convert formatted elements of the diversion back to input tokens as much as possible, .unfor-mat .unformat
mat will only handle tabs and spaces between words (usually caused by spaces or newlines in
the input) specially. The former are treated as if they were input tokens, and the latter are
stretchable again. Note that the vertical size of lines is not preserved. Glyph information
(font, font size, space width, etc.) is retained. Useful in conjunction with the .box and
.boxa requests.
.vpt n Enable vertical position traps if n is non-zero, disable them otherwise. Vertical position
traps are traps set by the wh or dt requests. Traps set by the it request are not vertical
position traps. The parameter that controls whether vertical position traps are enabled is
global. Initially vertical position traps are enabled.
.warn n
Control warnings. n is the sum of the numbers associated with each warning that is to be
enabled; all other warnings will be disabled. The number associated with each warning is
listed in troff(1). For example, .warn 0 will disable all warnings, and .warn 1 will disable
all warnings except that about missing glyphs. If n is not given, all warnings will be
enabled.
.warnscale si
Set the scaling indicator used in warnings to si. Valid values for si are u, i, c, p, and P.
At startup, it is set to i.
.while c anything
While condition c is true, accept anything as input; c can be any condition acceptable to an
if request; anything can comprise multiple lines if the first line starts with \{ and the last
line ends with \}. See also the break and continue requests.
.write stream anything
Write anything to the stream named stream. stream must previously have been the subject of an
open request. anything is read in copy mode; a leading " will be stripped.
.writec stream anything
Similar to write but without writing a final newline.
.writem stream xx
Write the contents of the macro or string xx to the stream named stream. stream must previ-ously previously
ously have been the subject of an open request. xx is read in copy mode.
Extended escape sequences
\D'...'
All drawing commands of groff's intermediate output are accepted. See subsection Drawing Com-mands Commands
mands below for more information.
Extended requests
.cf filename
When used in a diversion, this will embed in the diversion an object which, when reread, will
cause the contents of filename to be transparently copied through to the output. In UNIX
troff, the contents of filename is immediately copied through to the output regardless of
whether there is a current diversion; this behaviour is so anomalous that it must be consid-ered considered
ered a bug.
.de xx yy
.am xx yy
.ds xx yy
.as xx yy
In compatibility mode, these requests behaves similar to .de1, .am1, .ds1, and .as1, respec-tively: respectively:
tively: A `compatibility save' token is inserted at the beginning, and a `compatibility
restore' token at the end, with compatibility mode switched on during execution.
.ev xx If xx is not a number, this will switch to a named environment called xx. The environment
should be popped with a matching ev request without any arguments, just as for numbered envi-ronments. environments.
ronments. There is no limit on the number of named environments; they will be created the
first time that they are referenced.
.ss m n
When two arguments are given to the ss request, the second argument gives the sentence space
size. If the second argument is not given, the sentence space size will be the same as the
word space size. Like the word space size, the sentence space is in units of one twelfth of
the spacewidth parameter for the current font. Initially both the word space size and the
sentence space size are 12. Contrary to UNIX troff, GNU troff handles this request in nroff
mode also; a given value is then rounded down to the nearest multiple of 12. The sentence
space size is used in two circumstances. If the end of a sentence occurs at the end of a line
in fill mode, then both an inter-word space and a sentence space will be added; if two spaces
follow the end of a sentence in the middle of a line, then the second space will be a sentence
space. Note that the behaviour of UNIX troff will be exactly that exhibited by GNU troff if a
second argument is never given to the ss request. In GNU troff, as in UNIX troff, you should
always follow a sentence with either a newline or two spaces.
.ta n1 n2...nn T r1 r2...rn
Set tabs at positions n1, n2,..., nn and then set tabs at nn+r1, nn+r2,..., nn+rn and then at
nn+rn+r1, nn+rn+r2,..., nn+rn+rn, and so on. For example,
.ta T .5i
will set tabs every half an inch.
New number registers
The following read-only registers are available:
\n[.C] 1 if compatibility mode is in effect, 0 otherwise.
\n[.cdp]
The depth of the last glyph added to the current environment. It is positive if the glyph
extends below the baseline.
\n[.ce]
The number of lines remaining to be centered, as set by the ce request.
\n[.cht]
The height of the last glyph added to the current environment. It is positive if the glyph
extends above the baseline.
\n[.color]
1 if colors are enabled, 0 otherwise.
\n[.csk]
The skew of the last glyph added to the current environment. The skew of a glyph is how far
to the right of the center of a glyph the center of an accent over that glyph should be
placed.
\n[.ev]
The name or number of the current environment. This is a string-valued register.
\n[.fam]
The current font family. This is a string-valued register.
\n[.fn]
The current (internal) real font name. This is a string-valued register. If the current font
is a style, the value of \n[.fn] is the proper concatenation of family and style name.
\n[.fp]
The number of the next free font position.
\n[.g] Always 1. Macros should use this to determine whether they are running under GNU troff.
\n[.height]
The current height of the font as set with \H.
\n[.hla]
The current hyphenation language as set by the hla request.
\n[.hlc]
The number of immediately preceding consecutive hyphenated lines.
\n[.hlm]
The maximum allowed number of consecutive hyphenated lines, as set by the hlm request.
\n[.hy]
The current hyphenation flags (as set by the hy request).
\n[.hym]
The current hyphenation margin (as set by the hym request).
\n[.hys]
The current hyphenation space (as set by the hys request).
\n[.in]
The indent that applies to the current output line.
\n[.int]
Set to a positive value if last output line is interrupted (i.e., if it contains \c).
\n[.kern]
1 if pairwise kerning is enabled, 0 otherwise.
\n[.lg]
The current ligature mode (as set by the lg request).
\n[.linetabs]
The current line-tabs mode (as set by the linetabs request).
\n[.ll]
The line length that applies to the current output line.
\n[.lt]
The title length as set by the lt request.
\n[.m] The name of the current drawing color. This is a string-valued register.
\n[.M] The name of the current background color. This is a string-valued register.
\n[.ne]
The amount of space that was needed in the last ne request that caused a trap to be sprung.
Useful in conjunction with the \n[.trunc] register.
\n[.ns]
1 if no-space mode is active, 0 otherwise.
\n[.pe]
1 during a page ejection caused by the bp request, 0 otherwise.
\n[.pn]
The number of the next page, either the value set by a pn request, or the number of the cur-rent current
rent page plus 1.
\n[.ps]
The current pointsize in scaled points.
\n[.psr]
The last-requested pointsize in scaled points.
\n[.pvs]
The current post-vertical line space as set with the pvs request.
\n[.rj]
The number of lines to be right-justified as set by the rj request.
\n[.slant]
The slant of the current font as set with \S.
\n[.sr]
The last requested pointsize in points as a decimal fraction. This is a string-valued regis-ter. register.
ter.
\n[.ss]
\n[.sss]
These give the values of the parameters set by the first and second arguments of the ss
request.
\n[.sty]
The current font style. This is a string-valued register.
\n[.tabs]
A string representation of the current tab settings suitable for use as an argument to the ta
request.
\n[.trunc]
The amount of vertical space truncated by the most recently sprung vertical position trap, or,
if the trap was sprung by a ne request, minus the amount of vertical motion produced by the ne
request. In other words, at the point a trap is sprung, it represents the difference of
what the vertical position would have been but for the trap, and what the vertical position
actually is. Useful in conjunction with the \n[.ne] register.
\n[.U] Set to 1 if in safer mode and to 0 if in unsafe mode (as given with the -U command line
option).
\n[.vpt]
1 if vertical position traps are enabled, 0 otherwise.
\n[.warn]
The sum of the numbers associated with each of the currently enabled warnings. The number
associated with each warning is listed in troff(1).
\n[.x] The major version number. For example, if the version number is 1.03, then \n[.x] will con-tain contain
tain 1.
\n[.y] The minor version number. For example, if the version number is 1.03, then \n[.y] will con-tain contain
tain 03.
\n[.Y] The revision number of groff.
\n[llx]
\n[lly]
\n[urx]
\n[ury]
These four registers are set by the .psbb request and contain the bounding box values (in
PostScript units) of a given PostScript image.
The following read/write registers are set by the \w escape sequence:
\n[rst]
\n[rsb]
Like the st and sb registers, but take account of the heights and depths of glyphs.
\n[ssc]
The amount of horizontal space (possibly negative) that should be added to the last glyph
before a subscript.
\n[skw]
How far to right of the center of the last glyph in the \w argument, the center of an accent
from a roman font should be placed over that glyph.
Other available read/write number registers are:
\n[c.] The current input line number. \n[.c] is a read-only alias to this register.
\n[hours]
The number of hours past midnight. Initialized at start-up.
\n[hp] The current horizontal position at input line.
\n[minutes]
The number of minutes after the hour. Initialized at start-up.
\n[seconds]
The number of seconds after the minute. Initialized at start-up.
\n[systat]
The return value of the system() function executed by the last sy request.
\n[slimit]
If greater than 0, the maximum number of objects on the input stack. If less than or equal
to 0, there is no limit on the number of objects on the input stack. With no limit, recursion
can continue until virtual memory is exhausted.
\n[year]
The current year. Note that the traditional troff number register \n[yr] is the current year
minus 1900.
Miscellaneous
troff predefines a single (read/write) string-based register, \*(.T, which contains the argument
given to the -T command line option, namely the current output device (for example, latin1 or ascii).
Note that this is not the same as the (read-only) number register \n[.T] which is defined to be 1 if
troff is called with the -T command line option, and zero otherwise. This behaviour is different to
UNIX troff.
Fonts not listed in the DESC file are automatically mounted on the next available font position when
they are referenced. If a font is to be mounted explicitly with the fp request on an unused font
position, it should be mounted on the first unused font position, which can be found in the \n[.fp]
register; although troff does not enforce this strictly, it will not allow a font to be mounted at a
position whose number is much greater than that of any currently used position.
Interpolating a string does not hide existing macro arguments. Thus in a macro, a more efficient way
of doing
.xx \\$@
is
\\*[xx]\\
If the font description file contains pairwise kerning information, glyphs from that font will be
kerned. Kerning between two glyphs can be inhibited by placing a \& between them.
In a string comparison in a condition, characters that appear at different input levels to the first
delimiter character will not be recognised as the second or third delimiters. This applies also to
the tl request. In a \w escape sequence, a character that appears at a different input level to the
starting delimiter character will not be recognised as the closing delimiter character. The same is
true for \A, \b, \B, \C, \l, \L, \o, \X, and \Z. When decoding a macro or string argument that is
delimited by double quotes, a character that appears at a different input level to the starting
delimiter character will not be recognised as the closing delimiter character. The implementation of
\$@ ensures that the double quotes surrounding an argument will appear the same input level, which
will be different to the input level of the argument itself. In a long escape name ] will not be
recognized as a closing delimiter except when it occurs at the same input level as the opening ]. In
compatibility mode, no attention is paid to the input-level.
There are some new types of condition:
.if rxxx
True if there is a number register named xxx.
.if dxxx
True if there is a string, macro, diversion, or request named xxx.
.if mxxx
True if there is a color named xxx.
.if cch
True if there is a glyph ch available; ch is either an ASCII character or a glyph (special
character) \(xx or \[xxx]; the condition will also be true if ch has been defined by the char
request.
.if Ff True if font f exists. f is handled as if it was opened with the ft request (this is, font
translation and styles are applied), without actually mounting it.
.if Ss True if style s has been registered. Font translation is applied.
The tr request can now map characters onto \~.
It is now possible to have whitespace between the first and second dot (or the name of the ending
macro) to end a macro definition. Example:
.if t \{\
. de bar
. nop Hello, I'm `bar'.
. .
.\}
INTERMEDIATE OUTPUT FORMAT
This section describes the format output by GNU troff. The output format used by GNU troff is very
similar to that used by Unix device-independent troff. Only the differences are documented here.
Units
The argument to the s command is in scaled points (units of points/n, where n is the argument to the
sizescale command in the DESC file). The argument to the x Height command is also in scaled points.
Text Commands
Nn Print glyph with index n (a non-negative integer) of the current font.
If the tcommand line is present in the DESC file, troff will use the following two commands.
txxx xxx is any sequence of characters terminated by a space or a newline (to be more precise, it
is a sequence of glyphs which are accessed with the corresponding characters); the first char-acter character
acter should be printed at the current position, the current horizontal position should be
increased by the width of the first character, and so on for each character. The width of the
glyph is that given in the font file, appropriately scaled for the current point size, and
rounded so that it is a multiple of the horizontal resolution. Special characters cannot be
printed using this command.
un xxx This is same as the t command except that after printing each character, the current horizon-tal horizontal
tal position is increased by the sum of the width of that character and n.
Note that single characters can have the eighth bit set, as can the names of fonts and special char-acters. characters.
acters.
The names of glyphs and fonts can be of arbitrary length; drivers should not assume that they will be
only two characters long.
When a glyph is to be printed, that glyph will always be in the current font. Unlike device-indepen-dent device-independent
dent troff, it is not necessary for drivers to search special fonts to find a glyph.
For color support, some new commands have been added:
mc cyan magenta yellow
md
mg gray
mk cyan magenta yellow black
mr red green blue
Set the color components of the current drawing color, using various color schemes. md resets
the drawing color to the default value. The arguments are integers in the range 0 to 65536.
The x device control command has been extended.
x u n If n is 1, start underlining of spaces. If n is 0, stop underlining of spaces. This is
needed for the cu request in nroff mode and is ignored otherwise.
Drawing Commands
The D drawing command has been extended. These extensions will not be used by GNU pic if the -n
option is given.
Df n\n Set the shade of gray to be used for filling solid objects to n; n must be an integer between
0 and 1000, where 0 corresponds solid white and 1000 to solid black, and values in between
correspond to intermediate shades of gray. This applies only to solid circles, solid ellipses
and solid polygons. By default, a level of 1000 will be used. Whatever color a solid object
has, it should completely obscure everything beneath it. A value greater than 1000 or less
than 0 can also be used: this means fill with the shade of gray that is currently being used
for lines and text. Normally this will be black, but some drivers may provide a way of chang-ing changing
ing this.
The corresponding \D'f...' command shouldn't be used since its argument is always rounded to
an integer multiple of the horizontal resolution which can lead to surprising results.
DC d\n Draw a solid circle with a diameter of d with the leftmost point at the current position.
DE dx dy\n
Draw a solid ellipse with a horizontal diameter of dx and a vertical diameter of dy with the
leftmost point at the current position.
Dp dx1 dy1 dx2 dy2 ... dxn dyn\n i-1
Draw a polygon with, for i=1,...,n+1, the i-th vertex at the current position + > (dxj,dyj).
j=1
At the moment, GNU pic only uses this command to generate triangles and rectangles.
DP dx1 dy1 dx2 dy2 ... dxn dyn\n
Like Dp but draw a solid rather than outlined polygon.
Dt n\n Set the current line thickness to n machine units. Traditionally Unix troff drivers use a
line thickness proportional to the current point size; drivers should continue to do this if
no Dt command has been given, or if a Dt command has been given with a negative value of n. A
zero value of n selects the smallest available line thickness.
A difficulty arises in how the current position should be changed after the execution of these com-mands. commands.
mands. This is not of great importance since the code generated by GNU pic does not depend on this.
Given a drawing command of the form
\D'c x1 y1 x2 y2 ... xn yn'
where c is not one of c, e, l, a, or ~, Unix troff will treat each of the xi as a horizontal quan-tity, quantity,
tity, and each of the yi as a vertical quantity and will assume that the width of the drawn object is
> xi, and that the height is > yi. (The assumption about the height can be seen by examining the
i=1 i=1
st and sb registers after using such a D command in a \w escape sequence). This rule also holds for
all the original drawing commands with the exception of De. For the sake of compatibility GNU troff
also follows this rule, even though it produces an ugly result in the case of the Dt and Df, and, to
a lesser extent, DE commands. Thus after executing a D command of the form
Dc x1 y1 x2 y2 ... xn yn\n
n n
the current position should be increased by ( > xi, > yi).
i=1 i=1
Another set of extensions is
DFc cyan magenta yellow\n
DFd\n
DFg gray\n
DFk cyan magenta yellow black\n
DFr red green blue\n
Set the color components of the filling color similar to the m commands above.
The current position isn't changed by those colour commands (contrary to Df).
Device Control Commands
There is a continuation convention which permits the argument to the x X command to contain newlines:
when outputting the argument to the x X command, GNU troff will follow each newline in the argument
with a + character (as usual, it will terminate the entire argument with a newline); thus if the line
after the line containing the x X command starts with +, then the newline ending the line containing
the x X command should be treated as part of the argument to the x X command, the + should be
ignored, and the part of the line following the + should be treated like the part of the line follow-ing following
ing the x X command.
The first three output commands are guaranteed to be:
x T device
x res n h v
x init
INCOMPATIBILITIES
In spite of the many extensions, groff has retained compatibility to classical troff to a large
degree. For the cases where the extensions lead to collisions, a special compatibility mode with the
restricted, old functionality was created for groff.
Groff Language
groff provides a compatibility mode that allows to process roff code written for classical troff or
for other implementations of roff in a consistent way.
Compatibility mode can be turned on with the -C command line option, and turned on or off with the
.cp request. The number register \n(.C is 1 if compatibility mode is on, 0 otherwise.
This became necessary because the GNU concept for long names causes some incompatibilities. Classi-cal Classical
cal troff interprets
.dsabcd
as defining a string ab with contents cd. In groff mode, this will be considered as a call of a
macro named dsabcd.
Also classical troff interprets \*[ or \n[ as references to a string or number register called [
while groff takes this as the start of a long name.
In compatibility mode, groff interprets these things in the traditional way; so long names are not
recognized.
On the other hand, groff in GNU native mode does not allow to use the single-character escapes \\
(backslash), \| (vertical bar), \^ (caret), \& (ampersand), \{ (opening brace), \} (closing brace),
`\ ' (space), \' (single quote), \` (backquote), \- (minus), \_ (underline), \! (bang), \% (percent),
and \c (character c) in names of strings, macros, diversions, number registers, fonts or environ-ments, environments,
ments, whereas classical troff does.
The \A escape sequence can be helpful in avoiding these escape sequences in names.
Fractional pointsizes cause one noteworthy incompatibility. In classical troff, the ps request
ignores scale indicators and so
.ps 10u
will set the pointsize to 10 points, whereas in groff native mode the pointsize will be set to
10 scaled points.
In groff, there is a fundamental difference between unformatted input characters, and formatted out-put output
put characters (glyphs). Everything that affects how a glyph will be output is stored with the
glyph; once a glyph has been constructed it is unaffected by any subsequent requests that are exe-cuted, executed,
cuted, including the bd, cs, tkf, tr, or fp requests.
Normally glyphs are constructed from input characters at the moment immediately before the glyph is
added to the current output line. Macros, diversions and strings are all, in fact, the same type of
object; they contain lists of input characters and glyphs in any combination.
Special characters can be both; before being added to the output, they act as input entities, after-wards afterwards
wards they denote glyphs.
A glyph does not behave like an input character for the purposes of macro processing; it does not
inherit any of the special properties that the input character from which it was constructed might
have had. The following example will make things clearer.
.di x
\\\\
.br
.di
.x
With GNU troff this will be printed as \\. So each pair of input backslashes `\\' is turned into a
single output backslash glyph `\' and the resulting output backslashes are not interpreted as escape
characters when they are reread.
Classical troff would interpret them as escape characters when they were reread and would end up
printing a single backslash `\'.
In GNU, the correct way to get a printable version of the backslash character `\' is the \(rs escape
sequence, but classical troff does not provide a clean feature for getting a non-syntactical back-slash. backslash.
slash. A close method is the printable version of the current escape character using the \e escape
sequence; this works if the current escape character is not redefined. It works in both GNU mode and
compatibility mode, while dirty tricks like specifying a sequence of multiple backslashes do not work
reliably; for the different handling in diversions, macro definitions, or text mode quickly leads to
a confusion about the necessary number of backslashes.
To store an escape sequence in a diversion that will be interpreted when the diversion is reread,
either the traditional \! transparent output facility or the new \? escape sequence can be used.
Intermediate Output
The groff intermediate output format is in a state of evolution. So far it has some incompatibili-ties, incompatibilities,
ties, but it is intended to establish a full compatibility to the classical troff output format.
Actually the following incompatibilities exist:
• The positioning after the drawing of the polygons conflicts with the classical definition.
• The intermediate output cannot be rescaled to other devices as classical "device-independent" troff
did.
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or later. You should have received a copy of the FDL on your system, it is also available on-line at
the GNU copyleft site <http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html>. This document was written by James
Clark, with modifications by
Werner Lemberg <wl@gnu.org> and
Bernd Warken <bwarken@mayn.de>.
This document is part of groff, the GNU roff distribution. Formerly, the contents of this document
was kept in the manual page troff(1). Only the parts dealing with the language aspects of the dif-ferent different
ferent roff systems were carried over into this document. The troff command line options and warn-ings warnings
ings are still documented in troff(1).
SEE ALSO
The groff info file, cf. info(1) presents all groff documentation within a single document.
groff(1)
A list of all documentation around groff.
groff(7)
A description of the groff language, including a short, but complete reference of all prede-fined predefined
fined requests, registers, and escapes of plain groff. From the command line, this is called
using
shell# man 7 groff
roff(7)
A survey of roff systems, including pointers to further historical documentation.
[CSTR #54]
The Nroff/Troff User's Manual by J. F. Osanna of 1976 in the revision of Brian Kernighan of
1992, being the classical troff documentation <http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/cstr/54.ps.gz>.
Groff Version 1.19.2 21 November 2004 GROFF_DIFF(7)
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