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  1. <?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
  2. <!DOCTYPE sect1 PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.4//EN" "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.4/docbookx.dtd" [
  3. <!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../general.ent">
  4. %general-entities;
  5. ]>
  6. <sect1 id="ch-system-groff" role="wrap">
  7. <title>Groff-&groff-version;</title>
  8. <?dbhtml filename="groff.html"?>
  9. <indexterm zone="ch-system-groff"><primary sortas="a-Groff">Groff</primary></indexterm>
  10. <sect2 role="package"><title/>
  11. <para>The Groff package contains programs for processing and formatting text.</para>
  12. <segmentedlist>
  13. <segtitle>&buildtime;</segtitle>
  14. <segtitle>&diskspace;</segtitle>
  15. <seglistitem><seg>0.5 SBU</seg><seg>38.7 MB</seg></seglistitem>
  16. </segmentedlist>
  17. <segmentedlist>
  18. <segtitle>&dependencies;</segtitle>
  19. <seglistitem><seg>Bash, Binutils, Coreutils, Diffutils,
  20. Gawk, GCC, Glibc, Grep, Make, and Sed</seg></seglistitem>
  21. </segmentedlist>
  22. </sect2>
  23. <sect2 role="installation">
  24. <title>Installation of Groff</title>
  25. <para>Apply the patch that adds the "ascii8" and "nippon" devices to Groff:</para>
  26. <screen><userinput>zcat ../&groff-debian-patch; | patch -Np1</userinput></screen>
  27. <note><para>These devices are used by Man-DB when formatting non-English manual
  28. pages that are not in the ISO-8859-1 encoding. There is no working patch for
  29. Groff-1.19.x that adds this functionality at the time of this writing.
  30. <!-- Details: http://bugs.debian.org/196762 -->
  31. </para></note>
  32. <para>Many screen fonts don't have Unicode dashes in them. Tell groff to use
  33. the ASCII hyphen instead:</para>
  34. <screen><userinput>sed -i 's,2010,002D,' font/devutf8/R.proto
  35. sed -i 's,2212,002D,' font/devutf8/R.proto</userinput></screen>
  36. <para>Groff expects the environment variable <envar>PAGE</envar>
  37. to contain the default paper size. For users in the United States,
  38. <parameter>PAGE=letter</parameter> is appropriate. Elsewhere,
  39. <parameter>PAGE=A4</parameter> may be more suitable.
  40. The default paper size can be changed after installation by writing
  41. the word "A4" or "letter" to the <filename>/etc/papersize</filename>
  42. file.</para>
  43. <para>Prepare Groff for compilation:</para>
  44. <screen><userinput>PAGE=<replaceable>[paper_size]</replaceable> ./configure --prefix=/usr</userinput></screen>
  45. <para>Compile the package:</para>
  46. <screen><userinput>make</userinput></screen>
  47. <para>This package does not come with a test suite.</para>
  48. <para>Install the package:</para>
  49. <screen><userinput>make install</userinput></screen>
  50. <para>Some documentation programs, such as <command>xman</command>,
  51. will not work properly without the following symlinks:</para>
  52. <screen><userinput>ln -sv soelim /usr/bin/zsoelim
  53. ln -sv eqn /usr/bin/geqn
  54. ln -sv tbl /usr/bin/gtbl</userinput></screen>
  55. </sect2>
  56. <sect2 id="contents-groff" role="content"><title>Contents of Groff</title>
  57. <segmentedlist>
  58. <segtitle>Installed programs</segtitle>
  59. <seglistitem><seg>addftinfo, afmtodit, eqn, eqn2graph, geqn (link to eqn), grn,
  60. grodvi, groff, groffer, grog, grolbp, grolj4, grops, grotty, gtbl (link to tbl), hpftodit,
  61. indxbib, lkbib, lookbib, mmroff, neqn, nroff, pfbtops, pic, pic2graph, post-grohtml,
  62. pre-grohtml, refer, soelim, tbl, tfmtodit, troff, and zsoelim (link to soelim)</seg></seglistitem>
  63. </segmentedlist>
  64. <variablelist><bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
  65. <?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
  66. <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>
  67. <varlistentry id="addftinfo">
  68. <term><command>addftinfo</command></term>
  69. <listitem>
  70. <para>Reads a troff font file and adds some
  71. additional font-metric information that is used by the <command>groff</command> system</para>
  72. <indexterm zone="ch-system-groff addftinfo"><primary sortas="b-addftinfo">addftinfo</primary></indexterm>
  73. </listitem>
  74. </varlistentry>
  75. <varlistentry id="afmtodit">
  76. <term><command>afmtodit</command></term>
  77. <listitem>
  78. <para>Creates a font file for use with <command>groff</command> and <command>grops</command></para>
  79. <indexterm zone="ch-system-groff afmtodit"><primary sortas="b-afmtodit">afmtodit</primary></indexterm>
  80. </listitem>
  81. </varlistentry>
  82. <varlistentry id="eqn">
  83. <term><command>eqn</command></term>
  84. <listitem>
  85. <para>Compiles descriptions of equations embedded
  86. within troff input files into commands that are understood by <command>troff</command></para>
  87. <indexterm zone="ch-system-groff eqn"><primary sortas="b-eqn">eqn</primary></indexterm>
  88. </listitem>
  89. </varlistentry>
  90. <varlistentry id="eqn2graph">
  91. <term><command>eqn2graph</command></term>
  92. <listitem>
  93. <para>Converts a troff EQN (equation) into a cropped image</para>
  94. <indexterm zone="ch-system-groff eqn2graph"><primary sortas="b-eqn2graph">eqn2graph</primary></indexterm>
  95. </listitem>
  96. </varlistentry>
  97. <varlistentry id="geqn">
  98. <term><command>geqn</command></term>
  99. <listitem>
  100. <para>A link to <command>eqn</command></para>
  101. <indexterm zone="ch-system-groff geqn"><primary sortas="b-geqn">geqn</primary></indexterm>
  102. </listitem>
  103. </varlistentry>
  104. <varlistentry id="grn">
  105. <term><command>grn</command></term>
  106. <listitem>
  107. <para>A <command>groff</command> preprocessor for gremlin files</para>
  108. <indexterm zone="ch-system-groff grn"><primary sortas="b-grn">grn</primary></indexterm>
  109. </listitem>
  110. </varlistentry>
  111. <varlistentry id="grodvi">
  112. <term><command>grodvi</command></term>
  113. <listitem>
  114. <para>A driver for <command>groff</command> that produces TeX dvi format</para>
  115. <indexterm zone="ch-system-groff grodvi"><primary sortas="b-grodvi">grodvi</primary></indexterm>
  116. </listitem>
  117. </varlistentry>
  118. <varlistentry id="groff">
  119. <term><command>groff</command></term>
  120. <listitem>
  121. <para>A front-end to the groff document
  122. formatting system; normally, it runs the <command>troff</command> program and a post-processor
  123. appropriate for the selected device</para>
  124. <indexterm zone="ch-system-groff groff"><primary sortas="b-groff">groff</primary></indexterm>
  125. </listitem>
  126. </varlistentry>
  127. <varlistentry id="groffer">
  128. <term><command>groffer</command></term>
  129. <listitem>
  130. <para>Displays groff files and man pages on X and tty terminals</para>
  131. <indexterm zone="ch-system-groff groffer"><primary sortas="b-groffer">groffer</primary></indexterm>
  132. </listitem>
  133. </varlistentry>
  134. <varlistentry id="grog">
  135. <term><command>grog</command></term>
  136. <listitem>
  137. <para>Reads files and guesses which of the <command>groff</command>
  138. options <parameter>-e</parameter>, <parameter>-man</parameter>,
  139. <parameter>-me</parameter>, <parameter>-mm</parameter>,
  140. <parameter>-ms</parameter>, <parameter>-p</parameter>, <parameter>-s</parameter>,
  141. and <parameter>-t</parameter> are required for printing
  142. files, and reports the <command>groff</command> command including those options</para>
  143. <indexterm zone="ch-system-groff grog"><primary sortas="b-grog">grog</primary></indexterm>
  144. </listitem>
  145. </varlistentry>
  146. <varlistentry id="grolbp">
  147. <term><command>grolbp</command></term>
  148. <listitem>
  149. <para>Is a <command>groff</command> driver for Canon CAPSL printers
  150. (LBP-4 and LBP-8 series laser printers)</para>
  151. <indexterm zone="ch-system-groff grolbp"><primary sortas="b-grolbp">grolbp</primary></indexterm>
  152. </listitem>
  153. </varlistentry>
  154. <varlistentry id="grolj4">
  155. <term><command>grolj4</command></term>
  156. <listitem>
  157. <para>Is a driver for <command>groff</command> that produces output
  158. in PCL5 format suitable for an HP LaserJet 4 printer</para>
  159. <indexterm zone="ch-system-groff grolj4"><primary sortas="b-grolj4">grolj4</primary></indexterm>
  160. </listitem>
  161. </varlistentry>
  162. <varlistentry id="grops">
  163. <term><command>grops</command></term>
  164. <listitem>
  165. <para>Translates the output of GNU <command>troff</command> to PostScript</para>
  166. <indexterm zone="ch-system-groff grops"><primary sortas="b-grops">grops</primary></indexterm>
  167. </listitem>
  168. </varlistentry>
  169. <varlistentry id="grotty">
  170. <term><command>grotty</command></term>
  171. <listitem>
  172. <para>Translates the output of GNU <command>troff</command> into
  173. a form suitable for typewriter-like devices</para>
  174. <indexterm zone="ch-system-groff grotty"><primary sortas="b-grotty">grotty</primary></indexterm>
  175. </listitem>
  176. </varlistentry>
  177. <varlistentry id="gtbl">
  178. <term><command>gtbl</command></term>
  179. <listitem>
  180. <para>A link to <command>tbl</command></para>
  181. <indexterm zone="ch-system-groff gtbl"><primary sortas="b-gtbl">gtbl</primary></indexterm>
  182. </listitem>
  183. </varlistentry>
  184. <varlistentry id="hpftodit">
  185. <term><command>hpftodit</command></term>
  186. <listitem>
  187. <para>Creates a font file for use with
  188. <command>groff -Tlj4</command> from an HP-tagged font metric file</para>
  189. <indexterm zone="ch-system-groff hpftodit"><primary sortas="b-hpftodit">hpftodit</primary></indexterm>
  190. </listitem>
  191. </varlistentry>
  192. <varlistentry id="indxbib">
  193. <term><command>indxbib</command></term>
  194. <listitem>
  195. <para>Creates an inverted index for the bibliographic databases with a specified file for
  196. use with <command>refer</command>, <command>lookbib</command>, and <command>lkbib</command></para>
  197. <indexterm zone="ch-system-groff indxbib"><primary sortas="b-indxbib">indxbib</primary></indexterm>
  198. </listitem>
  199. </varlistentry>
  200. <varlistentry id="lkbib">
  201. <term><command>lkbib</command></term>
  202. <listitem>
  203. <para>Searches bibliographic databases for references that contain
  204. specified keys and reports any references found</para>
  205. <indexterm zone="ch-system-groff lkbib"><primary sortas="b-lkbib">lkbib</primary></indexterm>
  206. </listitem>
  207. </varlistentry>
  208. <varlistentry id="lookbib">
  209. <term><command>lookbib</command></term>
  210. <listitem>
  211. <para>Prints a prompt on the standard error (unless the standard input
  212. is not a terminal), reads a line containing a
  213. set of keywords from the standard input, searches the bibliographic databases in a specified
  214. file for references containing those keywords, prints any references
  215. found on the standard output, and repeats this process until the end
  216. of input</para>
  217. <indexterm zone="ch-system-groff lookbib"><primary sortas="b-lookbib">lookbib</primary></indexterm>
  218. </listitem>
  219. </varlistentry>
  220. <varlistentry id="mmroff">
  221. <term><command>mmroff</command></term>
  222. <listitem>
  223. <para>A simple preprocessor for <command>groff</command></para>
  224. <indexterm zone="ch-system-groff mmroff"><primary sortas="b-mmroff">mmroff</primary></indexterm>
  225. </listitem>
  226. </varlistentry>
  227. <varlistentry id="neqn">
  228. <term><command>neqn</command></term>
  229. <listitem>
  230. <para>Formats equations for American Standard Code for Information
  231. Interchange (ASCII) output</para>
  232. <indexterm zone="ch-system-groff neqn"><primary sortas="b-neqn">neqn</primary></indexterm>
  233. </listitem>
  234. </varlistentry>
  235. <varlistentry id="nroff">
  236. <term><command>nroff</command></term>
  237. <listitem>
  238. <para>A script that emulates the <command>nroff</command> command using <command>groff</command></para>
  239. <indexterm zone="ch-system-groff nroff"><primary sortas="b-nroff">nroff</primary></indexterm>
  240. </listitem>
  241. </varlistentry>
  242. <varlistentry id="pfbtops">
  243. <term><command>pfbtops</command></term>
  244. <listitem>
  245. <para>Translates a PostScript font in <filename class="extension">.pfb</filename> format to ASCII</para>
  246. <indexterm zone="ch-system-groff pfbtops"><primary sortas="b-pfbtops">pfbtops</primary></indexterm>
  247. </listitem>
  248. </varlistentry>
  249. <varlistentry id="pic">
  250. <term><command>pic</command></term>
  251. <listitem>
  252. <para>Compiles descriptions of pictures embedded
  253. within troff or TeX input files into commands understood by TeX or <command>troff</command></para>
  254. <indexterm zone="ch-system-groff pic"><primary sortas="b-pic">pic</primary></indexterm>
  255. </listitem>
  256. </varlistentry>
  257. <varlistentry id="pic2graph">
  258. <term><command>pic2graph</command></term>
  259. <listitem>
  260. <para>Converts a PIC diagram into a cropped image</para>
  261. <indexterm zone="ch-system-groff pic2graph"><primary sortas="b-pic2graph">pic2graph</primary></indexterm>
  262. </listitem>
  263. </varlistentry>
  264. <varlistentry id="post-grohtml">
  265. <term><command>post-grohtml</command></term>
  266. <listitem>
  267. <para>Translates the output of GNU <command>troff</command> to HTML</para>
  268. <indexterm zone="ch-system-groff post-grohtml"><primary sortas="b-post-grohtml">post-grohtml</primary></indexterm>
  269. </listitem>
  270. </varlistentry>
  271. <varlistentry id="pre-grohtml">
  272. <term><command>pre-grohtml </command></term>
  273. <listitem>
  274. <para>Translates the output of GNU <command>troff</command> to HTML</para>
  275. <indexterm zone="ch-system-groff pre-grohtml"><primary sortas="b-pre-grohtml">pre-grohtml</primary></indexterm>
  276. </listitem>
  277. </varlistentry>
  278. <varlistentry id="refer">
  279. <term><command>refer</command></term>
  280. <listitem>
  281. <para>Copies the contents of a file to the standard output, except
  282. that lines between <emphasis>.[</emphasis> and <emphasis>.]</emphasis>
  283. are interpreted as citations, and lines between
  284. <emphasis>.R1</emphasis> and <emphasis>.R2</emphasis> are interpreted
  285. as commands for how citations are to be processed</para>
  286. <indexterm zone="ch-system-groff refer"><primary sortas="b-refer">refer</primary></indexterm>
  287. </listitem>
  288. </varlistentry>
  289. <varlistentry id="soelim">
  290. <term><command>soelim</command></term>
  291. <listitem>
  292. <para>Reads files and replaces lines of the form
  293. <emphasis>.so file</emphasis> by the contents of the mentioned
  294. <emphasis>file</emphasis></para>
  295. <indexterm zone="ch-system-groff soelim"><primary sortas="b-soelim">soelim</primary></indexterm>
  296. </listitem>
  297. </varlistentry>
  298. <varlistentry id="tbl">
  299. <term><command>tbl</command></term>
  300. <listitem>
  301. <para>Compiles descriptions of tables embedded
  302. within troff input files into commands that are understood by <command>troff</command></para>
  303. <indexterm zone="ch-system-groff tbl"><primary sortas="b-tbl">tbl</primary></indexterm>
  304. </listitem>
  305. </varlistentry>
  306. <varlistentry id="tfmtodit">
  307. <term><command>tfmtodit</command></term>
  308. <listitem>
  309. <para>Creates a font file for use with <command>groff -Tdvi</command></para>
  310. <indexterm zone="ch-system-groff tfmtodit"><primary sortas="b-tfmtodit">tfmtodit</primary></indexterm>
  311. </listitem>
  312. </varlistentry>
  313. <varlistentry id="troff">
  314. <term><command>troff</command></term>
  315. <listitem>
  316. <para>Is highly compatible with Unix <command>troff</command>; it
  317. should usually be invoked using the
  318. <command>groff</command> command, which will also run preprocessors and post-processors in the
  319. appropriate order and with the appropriate options</para>
  320. <indexterm zone="ch-system-groff troff"><primary sortas="b-troff">troff</primary></indexterm>
  321. </listitem>
  322. </varlistentry>
  323. <varlistentry id="zsoelim">
  324. <term><command>zsoelim</command></term>
  325. <listitem>
  326. <para>A link to <command>soelim</command></para>
  327. <indexterm zone="ch-system-groff zsoelim"><primary sortas="b-zsoelim">zsoelim</primary></indexterm>
  328. </listitem>
  329. </varlistentry>
  330. </variablelist>
  331. </sect2>
  332. </sect1>