groff

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GNU replacement for the `troff` and `nroff` typesetting utilities.

Examples (5)

Format output for a PostScript printer, saving the output to a file

groff path/to/input.roff > path/to/output.ps

Render a man page using the ASCII output device, and display it using a pager

groff -man -T ascii path/to/manpage.1 | less --RAW-CONTROL-CHARS

Render a man page into an HTML file

groff -man -T html path/to/manpage.1 > path/to/manpage.html

Typeset a roff file containing [t]ables and [p]ictures, using the [me] macro set, to PDF, saving the output

groff -t -p -me -T pdf path/to/input.me > path/to/output.pdf

Run a `groff` command with preprocessor and macro options guessed by the `grog` utility

eval "$(grog -T utf8 path/to/input.me)"