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| 2 | <title>Contents</title>
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| 3 |
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[b822811] | 4 | <para>The Groff packages contains the addftinfo, afmtodit, eqn, grodvi, groff,
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[6370fa6] | 5 | grog, grohtml, grolj4, grops, grotty, hpftodit, indxbib, lkbib, lookbib,
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| 6 | neqn, nroff, pfbtops, pic, psbb, refer, soelim, tbl, tfmtodit and troff
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[b822811] | 7 | programs.</para>
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[6370fa6] | 8 |
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| 9 | </sect2>
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| 10 |
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| 11 | <sect2><title>Description</title>
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| 12 |
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| 13 | <sect3><title>addftinfo</title>
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[b822811] | 14 | <para>addftinfo reads a troff font file and adds some additional font-metric
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[53ad30a] | 15 | information that is used by the groff system.</para></sect3>
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[6370fa6] | 16 |
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| 17 | <sect3><title>afmtodit</title>
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[53ad30a] | 18 | <para>afmtodit creates a font file for use with groff and grops.</para></sect3>
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[6370fa6] | 19 |
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| 20 | <sect3><title>eqn</title>
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[b822811] | 21 | <para>eqn compiles descriptions of equations embedded within troff input files
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[53ad30a] | 22 | into commands that are understood by troff.</para></sect3>
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[6370fa6] | 23 |
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| 24 | <sect3><title>grodvi</title>
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[53ad30a] | 25 | <para>grodvi is a driver for groff that produces TeX dvi format.</para></sect3>
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[6370fa6] | 26 |
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| 27 | <sect3><title>groff</title>
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[b822811] | 28 | <para>groff is a front-end to the groff document formatting system. Normally it
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[a9cb6f08] | 29 | runs the troff program and a post-processor appropriate for the selected
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[53ad30a] | 30 | device.</para></sect3>
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[6370fa6] | 31 |
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| 32 | <sect3><title>grog</title>
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[b822811] | 33 | <para>grog reads files and guesses which of the groff options -e, -man, -me,
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| 34 | -mm, -ms, -p, -s, and -t are required for printing files, and prints the groff
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[53ad30a] | 35 | command including those options on the standard output.</para></sect3>
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[6370fa6] | 36 |
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| 37 | <sect3><title>grohtml</title>
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[53ad30a] | 38 | <para>grohtml translates the output of GNU troff to html</para></sect3>
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[6370fa6] | 39 |
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| 40 | <sect3><title>grolj4</title>
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[b822811] | 41 | <para>grolj4 is a driver for groff that produces output in PCL5 format suitable
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[53ad30a] | 42 | for an HP Laserjet 4 printer.</para></sect3>
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[6370fa6] | 43 |
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| 44 | <sect3><title>grops</title>
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[53ad30a] | 45 | <para>grops translates the output of GNU troff to Postscript.</para></sect3>
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[6370fa6] | 46 |
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| 47 | <sect3><title>grotty</title>
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[b822811] | 48 | <para>grotty translates the output of GNU troff into a form suitable for
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[53ad30a] | 49 | typewriter-like devices.</para></sect3>
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[6370fa6] | 50 |
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| 51 | <sect3><title>hpftodit</title>
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[b822811] | 52 | <para>hpftodit creates a font file for use with groff -Tlj4 from an HP
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[53ad30a] | 53 | tagged font metric file.</para></sect3>
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[6370fa6] | 54 |
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| 55 | <sect3><title>indxbib</title>
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[b822811] | 56 | <para>indxbib makes an inverted index for the bibliographic databases a
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[53ad30a] | 57 | specified file for use with refer, lookbib, and lkbib.</para></sect3>
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[6370fa6] | 58 |
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| 59 | <sect3><title>lkbib</title>
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[b822811] | 60 | <para>lkbib searches bibliographic databases for references that contain
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[53ad30a] | 61 | specified keys and prints any references found on the
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| 62 | standard output.</para></sect3>
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[6370fa6] | 63 |
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| 64 | <sect3><title>lookbib</title>
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[b822811] | 65 | <para>lookbib prints a prompt on the standard error (unless the standard input
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[6370fa6] | 66 | is not a terminal), reads from the standard input a line containing a set
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| 67 | of keywords, searches the bibliographic databases in a specified file for
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| 68 | references containing those keywords, prints any references found on the
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[53ad30a] | 69 | standard output, and repeats this process until the end of input.</para></sect3>
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[6370fa6] | 70 |
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| 71 | <sect3><title>neqn</title>
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[53ad30a] | 72 | <para>The neqn script formats equations for ascii output.</para></sect3>
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[6370fa6] | 73 |
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| 74 | <sect3><title>nroff</title>
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[53ad30a] | 75 | <para>The nroff script emulates the nroff command using groff.</para></sect3>
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[6370fa6] | 76 |
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| 77 | <sect3><title>pfbtops</title>
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[53ad30a] | 78 | <para>pfbtops translates a Postscript font in .pfb format
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| 79 | to ASCII.</para></sect3>
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[6370fa6] | 80 |
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| 81 | <sect3><title>pic</title>
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[b822811] | 82 | <para>pic compiles descriptions of pictures embedded within troff or TeX input
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[53ad30a] | 83 | files into commands that are understood by TeX or troff.</para></sect3>
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[6370fa6] | 84 |
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| 85 | <sect3><title>psbb</title>
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[b822811] | 86 | <para>psbb reads a file which should be a Postscript document conforming to the
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[53ad30a] | 87 | Document Structuring conventions and looks for a
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| 88 | %%BoundingBox comment.</para></sect3>
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[6370fa6] | 89 |
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| 90 | <sect3><title>refer</title>
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[b822811] | 91 | <para>refer copies the contents of a file to the standard output, except that
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[6370fa6] | 92 | lines between .[ and .] are interpreted as citations, and lines between .R1
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| 93 | and .R2 are interpreted as commands about how citations are to be
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[53ad30a] | 94 | processed.</para></sect3>
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[6370fa6] | 95 |
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| 96 | <sect3><title>soelim</title>
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[b822811] | 97 | <para>soelim reads files and replaces lines of the form
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[6370fa6] | 98 | <emphasis>.so file</emphasis> by the contents of
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[53ad30a] | 99 | <emphasis>file</emphasis>.</para></sect3>
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[6370fa6] | 100 |
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| 101 | <sect3><title>tbl</title>
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[b822811] | 102 | <para>tbl compiles descriptions of tables embedded within troff input files
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[53ad30a] | 103 | into commands that are understood by troff.</para></sect3>
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[6370fa6] | 104 |
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| 105 | <sect3><title>tfmtodit</title>
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[b822811] | 106 | <para>tfmtodit creates a font file for use with <userinput>groff
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[53ad30a] | 107 | -Tdvi</userinput></para></sect3>
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[6370fa6] | 108 |
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| 109 | <sect3><title>troff</title>
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[b822811] | 110 | <para>troff is highly compatible with Unix troff. Usually it should be invoked
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[6370fa6] | 111 | using the groff command, which will also run preprocessors and
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[b822811] | 112 | post-processors in the appropriate order and with the appropriate
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[53ad30a] | 113 | options.</para></sect3>
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[6370fa6] | 114 |
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| 115 | </sect2>
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