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Groff (GNU troff) is a typesetting system that reads plain text mixed with formatting commands and produces formatted output. Output may be PostScript or PDF, html, or ASCII/UTF8 for display at the terminal.

Groff (GNU troff) is a typesetting system that reads plain text mixed with formatting commands and produces formatted output. Output may be PostScript or PDF, html, or ASCII/UTF8 for display at the terminal.

http://www.gnu.org/software/groff/

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man – How can I make part of the word italic?

How can I make part of word italic in groff manpage? When I write this: .TH prog 1 normal .I italic Output is like this: normal italic How can I do this without inserting the space between words normal and italic? normalitalic
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Can a number register be used in a groff request?

Can someone explain to me why embedding literal values (e.g., "1c") in the .po ("page offset") request works but referencing a number register does not? .\" Set the dimensions of an A4 page. .nr a4_width 21c .nr a4_height 29.7c .nr…
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tbl with groff/ntoff: borders messed-up when reaching end-of-page

As output for a script, I produce inut for tbl. However, when a table seems to reach an end of page, the borders of a table go all over the place. As an example: │ │ │ │ │ …
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Man page, as structured data (csv, database, ...)

In order to simplify my question, I mainly consider man pages of commands. eg «man grep». Man pages are, more or less, structured. Most sections and their presentation are standard, and an explanation can be found on…
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ASCII diagram formatting messed up in Nroff

I am using Nroffeditor to develop a rfc like document and adding a ascii diagram, which I handcrafted. There is a online tool asciiflow.com, which can also be used. When I paste the ASCII diagram in the NroffEditor, it shows a messed up diagram in…
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Force man to output ANSI codes

I'm using man along with man2html to automatically generate some html documentation, along the lines of man manpage | man2html. This is working well, except when I run it on Travis CI, man is not generating the proper escape sequences to make…
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How to generate images?

Generates an HTML page with a link to image without image file: man -Hfirefox 3 exit Generates an HTML page with link and file, but it is empty (zero size). Also generates the code for the table, but it is empty: zcat /usr/share/man/man3/exit.3.gz…
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Groff "Page n of m" with mom

We're using groff with the mom macros for generating reports, and we'd like to change the page numbering from the "- n -" format to "Page n of m". Looking through the mom documentation, I see several ways of formatting the page number, but nothing…
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Text codepage in groff

How to setup a correct codepage in groff? For example to use a cyrillic language. Man page notes about -T switch. But troff -T utf8 -ms troff_file.txt gives: warning: invalid input character code 128`
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Preview a troff file

So, I have a text file, embedded with troff formatting commands. However, my printer is currently broken, but I want to see what the file looks like, so I can make sure everything is correct. Is there a program that can interpret the commands and…
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How do I add a blank line in an unix man page using groff?

I tried the following and it doesn't work: .SH ADD A NEW TEST Everytime you invoke a command within the shell, this is what actually happens: the shell search for a folder named as your command inside the directory .B path/to/framework/Tests or any…
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How to convert a PDF file to letter size using groff?

I am trying to convert a text file in groff format to PDF, using the following command: groff -Tps -dpaper=letter -P-letter -P-l -ms foo.ms | ps2pdf - output.pdf The command works fine and outputs me a PDF file, but the paper size is "a4". I would…
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Multiple page breaks in ms macros

In groff using ms macros, how can I insert multiple page breaks one after another? This only produces one new page before the next paragraph (as expected): .bp .bp However this also only produces one new page before the next paragraph: .bp +2 I…
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How to get Groff to not print empty lines?

It's been some time since posting to the forum. I've been trying to find a solution in the bash or zsh programming language that would allow me to cat tables to files that later I could update with textual strings including info on time and dates,…
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using groff inside of a flatpak container

I am trying to call the program groff from inside a gedit flatpak (external tools plugin). The flatpak can access the groff binary, but groff looks for files at /usr/share/groff, while in flatpak, this path is mapped to…
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