DESCR revision 1.2 1 This package contains manual page sources for the groff family of text
2 formatters. The online manual pages for groff contain information about
3 the following groff-related utilities:
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5 grog - grog reads files and guesses which of the groff(1) options
6 -e, -man, -me, -mm, -ms, -p, -s, and -t are required for
7 printing files, and prints the groff command including those
8 options on the standard output;
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10 troff - describes the GNU version of troff, which is part of the
11 groff document formatting system;
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13 tbl - tbl compiles descriptions of tables embedded within troff
14 input files into commands that are understood by troff;
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16 pic - pic compiles descriptions of pictures embedded within
17 troff or TeX input files into commands that are understood by
18 TeX or troff;
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20 eqn - compiles descriptions of equations embedded within troff
21 input files into commands that are understood by troff
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23 soelim - eliminate .so directives from nroff input
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25 refer - preprocess bibliographic references for groff
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27 grops - translates the output of GNU troff to PostScript
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29 grodvi - convert groff output to TeX dvi format
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31 grotty - translates the output of GNU troff into a form
32 suitable for typewriter-like devices
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34 groff_font - format of groff device and font description files
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36 groff_out - groff intermediate output format
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38 groff_ms, ms - groff ms macros
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40 me - macros for formatting technical papers
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42 groff_char - lists the standard groff input characters
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