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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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Why is my man page formatted incorrectly ONLY when viewed with man?

I am writing a man page for a program, the source looks like this: .TH prog 1 "26 AUG 2010" "Version 0.1" "Center header" .NAME prog \- runs a program .SH SYNOPSIS .B prog When I use $ groff -Tascii -man source.txt | more the output is pretty much…
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How to add literal code lines in manual page?

I'd like to embed a block of code like this: foreach my $n (1..10) { print "$n\n"; } in a groff 'man' document and not have it reformat it into a single line. I'd like to suppress all formatting, and not have groff recognize and process any…
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Is groff's grammar LALR(1)?

As a pet project, I'm trying to make a groff parser with Jison ( a JavaScript clone of Bison ), but I'm struggling my head trying to figure out if groff's grammar is LALR(1). Does anyone have an insight about this?. Thanks in advance. Update 1 In…
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GNU Make: permissions issue creating files

I'm using Make to get some data from a MySQL database, populate a report and email it using cron. I've run into a permissions issue when processing the groff file. The Make: get: $(DATA) $(DATA): bash $(GET) $(SQL) > $@ format:…
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How does man.cgi deal with cat vs. mdoc man pages?

I want to start a site with a collection of BSD man-pages, similar to man.cgi, but static HTML, and which includes all the stuff from the ports trees, too. I've tried unpacking man/ from all the OpenBSD packages for a recent release, and I've…
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Output a backslash in groff, also avoiding hyphenation

How groff can output \ symbol in my text, do not reading this symbol as a macro? And how to prohibit dividing words with a dash (hyphenation)?
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man 7 groff_man - No manual entry for groff

I am wanting to view more information on the Groff Macro Packages through my Man Page viewer. However, when I try to see them, they do not work. ➜ man groff # [...works as expected...] ➜ man 7 groff No manual entry for groff in…
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