[04a3351] | 1 | <sect2><title>Short descriptions</title>
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[6370fa6] | 2 |
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[978d0bf] | 3 | <para><command>addftinfo</command> reads a troff font file and adds some
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| 4 | additional font-metric information that is used by the groff system.</para>
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[6370fa6] | 5 |
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[978d0bf] | 6 | <para><command>afmtodit</command> creates a font file for use with
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| 7 | groff and grops.</para>
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[6370fa6] | 8 |
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[978d0bf] | 9 | <para><command>eqn</command> compiles descriptions of equations embedded
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| 10 | within troff input files into commands that are understood by troff.</para>
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[bdc08c1] | 11 |
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[c945511] | 12 | <para><command>eqn2graph</command> converts an EQN equation into a cropped
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| 13 | image.</para>
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| 14 |
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[978d0bf] | 15 | <para><command>grn</command> is a groff preprocessor for gremlin files.</para>
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[f419bd8] | 16 |
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[978d0bf] | 17 | <para><command>grodvi</command> is a driver for groff that produces TeX dvi format.</para>
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[6370fa6] | 18 |
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[978d0bf] | 19 | <para><command>groff</command> is a front-end to the groff document
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| 20 | formatting system. Normally it runs the troff program and a post-processor
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| 21 | appropriate for the selected device.</para>
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[6370fa6] | 22 |
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[c945511] | 23 | <para><command>groffer</command> displays groff files and man pages on X
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| 24 | and tty.</para>
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[978d0bf] | 25 | <para><command>grog</command> reads files and guesses which of the groff
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| 26 | options -e, -man, -me, -mm, -ms, -p, -s, and -t are required for printing
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| 27 | files, and reports the groff command including those options.</para>
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[6370fa6] | 28 |
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[978d0bf] | 29 | <para><command>grolbp</command> is a groff driver for Canon CAPSL printers
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| 30 | (LBP-4 and LBP-8 series laser printers).</para>
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[6370fa6] | 31 |
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[978d0bf] | 32 | <para><command>grolj4</command> is a driver for groff that produces output
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| 33 | in PCL5 format suitable for an HP Laserjet 4 printer.</para>
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[6370fa6] | 34 |
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[978d0bf] | 35 | <para><command>grops</command> translates the output of GNU troff to
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| 36 | Postscript.</para>
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[6370fa6] | 37 |
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[978d0bf] | 38 | <para><command>grotty</command> translates the output of GNU troff into
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| 39 | a form suitable for typewriter-like devices.</para>
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[6370fa6] | 40 |
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[978d0bf] | 41 | <para><command>gtbl</command> is the GNU implementation of tbl.</para>
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[6370fa6] | 42 |
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[978d0bf] | 43 | <para><command>hpftodit</command> creates a font file for use with
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| 44 | groff -Tlj4 from an HP-tagged font metric file.</para>
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[f419bd8] | 45 |
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[978d0bf] | 46 | <para><command>indxbib</command> makes an inverted index for the
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| 47 | bibliographic databases a specified file for use with refer, lookbib,
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| 48 | and lkbib.</para>
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[6370fa6] | 49 |
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[978d0bf] | 50 | <para><command>lkbib</command> searches bibliographic databases for
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| 51 | references that contain specified keys and reports any references found.</para>
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[6370fa6] | 52 |
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[978d0bf] | 53 | <para><command>lookbib</command> prints a prompt on the standard error
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| 54 | (unless the standard input is not a terminal), reads from the standard input
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| 55 | a line containing a set of keywords, searches the bibliographic databases in
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| 56 | a specified file for references containing those keywords, prints any
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| 57 | references found on the standard output and repeats this process until the
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| 58 | end of input.</para>
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[6370fa6] | 59 |
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[978d0bf] | 60 | <para><command>mmroff</command> is a simple preprocessor for groff.</para>
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[6370fa6] | 61 |
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[978d0bf] | 62 | <para><command>neqn</command> formats equations for ascii output.</para>
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[6370fa6] | 63 |
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[978d0bf] | 64 | <para><command>nroff</command> is a script that emulates the nroff command
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| 65 | using groff.</para>
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[6370fa6] | 66 |
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[978d0bf] | 67 | <para><command>pfbtops</command> translates a Postscript font in .pfb
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| 68 | format to ASCII.</para>
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[bdc08c1] | 69 |
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[978d0bf] | 70 | <para><command>pic</command> compiles descriptions of pictures embedded
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| 71 | within troff or TeX input files into commands understood by TeX or troff.</para>
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[6370fa6] | 72 |
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[c945511] | 73 | <para><command>pic2graph</command> converts a PIC diagram into a cropped
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| 74 | image.</para>
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| 75 |
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[17476c5] | 76 | <para><command>pre-grohtml </command> translates the output of GNU troff
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[978d0bf] | 77 | to html.</para>
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[6370fa6] | 78 |
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[978d0bf] | 79 | <para><command>post-grohtml</command> translates the output of GNU troff
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| 80 | to html.</para>
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[6370fa6] | 81 |
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[978d0bf] | 82 | <para><command>refer</command> copies the contents of a file to the
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| 83 | standard output, except that lines between .[ and .] are interpreted as
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| 84 | citations, and lines between .R1 and .R2 are interpreted as commands about
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| 85 | how citations are to be processed.</para>
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[6370fa6] | 86 |
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[978d0bf] | 87 | <para><command>soelim</command> reads files and replaces lines of the form
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| 88 | <emphasis>.so file</emphasis> by the contents of the mentioned
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| 89 | <emphasis>file</emphasis>.</para>
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[6370fa6] | 90 |
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[978d0bf] | 91 | <para><command>tbl</command> compiles descriptions of tables embedded
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| 92 | within troff input files into commands that are understood by troff.</para>
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[6370fa6] | 93 |
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[978d0bf] | 94 | <para><command>tfmtodit</command> creates a font file for use with
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| 95 | groff -Tdvi.</para>
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[6370fa6] | 96 |
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[978d0bf] | 97 | <para><command>troff</command> is highly compatible with Unix troff.
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| 98 | Usually it should be invoked using the groff command, which will also run
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| 99 | preprocessors and post-processors in the appropriate order and with the
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| 100 | appropriate options.</para>
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[bdc08c1] | 101 |
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[978d0bf] | 102 | <para><command>zsoelim</command> is the GNU implementation of soelim.</para>
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[f419bd8] | 103 |
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[6370fa6] | 104 | </sect2>
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[978d0bf] | 105 |
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