Questions tagged [roff]
The general name for a family of text formatting programs and mark-up languages, all descended from CTSS's 1964 `RUNOFF` system. Current versions are known as `groff`, `troff`, `nroff`, `ditroff`, etc. and are used at the command line to format manual pages (`man` pages) on Unix-like operating systems.
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Two Columns For Text And One For Footnotes In Groff
I'm new to groff, so excuse me if it's a silly question. I can't find an appropriate solution for have two-columned content with one-columned footnotes. I've messed with .1C and .2C macros to get the ...
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Delete columns that contains only numbers
I have a table that containes some data and I need to delete the columns that contains only number (Nr.,Cod,Tiraj):
Nr. Autor Titlu Cod Tiraj Tara
1 Gauss Carl ...
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How do I create a table using tbl command [duplicate]
I have to create a table and I tried doing this using tbl
This is how the table should look:
But I can't find a way how to use the tbl command to create this table in a file called authors.
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How do I output an individual eqn described equation to a .ps or .eps?
I would like to reuse the output from eqn to get PS or EPS files which contains just the equation and not a complete A4 with the equation.
If I try:
$ cat test.eqn
.EQ
For ~ y=1 ~ -> ~ L( y hat , y)...
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How do I scale a whole figure in pic?
Given a pic figure:
.PS
circle "Foo"
arrow
box "Bar"
arrow
box dashed "Foo" "Dashed"
.PE
Is it possible to scale the whole diagram element's widths and heights?...
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How can I include a pic figure as external file in groff?
While using groff and pic it is possible to do:
$ cat test.ms
.TL
Test
.NH 1
Test Header
.PS
circle
arrow
box
.PE
$ cat test.ms | groff -ms -p > test.ps
Which generates a valid test.ps file ...
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Are ∈ and ℝ symbols available in eqn/roff?
A set of commonly used symbols to represent that a variable belongs to a given real coordinate space are ∈ ("ELEMENT OF", Unicode U+2208) and ℝ ("DOUBLE-STRUCK CAPITAL R", Unicode ...
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Inserting the date in groff
How can I insert today's date in groff?
I know I can type today's date directly, but I would like the date to dynamically be produced, so that a document could be recompiled with a new date without ...
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Is there a way to prevent line breaks in man pages?
Title says it all. I'm just trying to avoid awkward line breaks between words. I read somewhere that in {,t,g}roff using ~ in place of a space should do it, but that doesn't seem to work for man pages ...
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groff registers not defined during macro
Context:
Let's say I am trying to write a macro in groff in order to draw a rectangle given some arguments (like width and height for example).
For this I need to perform some simple arithmetic, that ...
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Does Groff have an updated formatting algorithm (Knuth-Plass/other)?
In the groff mission statement it says that Groff will be moving to an improved formatting algorithm. Considering that the mission statement was written in 2014; I was wondering where this was at ...
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Is Troff Turing complete?
Troff supports both macro definitions using .de and branching using .if (see pages 5 and 6 of the Troff user's manual). In these two respects, it is very much like TeX. However, I don't know of highly ...
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Rendering of underlined dots in man
If you look at the documentation source for man(1) (probably at /usr/share/man/man1/man.1.gz) using, you'll notice lines like this one -
.IR page [.\| section \|]\ \|.\|.\|.\|]\ \.\|.\|.\&
This ...
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Embed ascii diagram in groff?
I have groff file to generate a pdf in the format:
.TL
Article title
.AU
Author name
.AI
Publication title
.SH
.LP
First paragraph
.PP
More paragraphs
I'm then running groff -ms a.ms -T pdf > a....
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How to access man pages as structured content
I'm building a resource that references man pages, and I'm wondering if anyone knows of a way to access man pages as structured data? My current approach is to do a lot if REGEXing, but this is ...
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exporting man pages to postscript
I found that I can save man page into ps format:
man -t man > file.ps
or to pdf:
man -t man | ps2pdf - file.pdf
Apart from the man page itself, the export includes man version, page numbers and ...
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How do I convert a troff manpage with UTF-8 characters (czech to be precise) to PDF
I have a troff document (manpage) with UTF-8 characters and I am trying to convert it to a PDF. However, when using the -Tpdf option, the PDF generated does not show the correct characters. This is ...
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How can 'man' render double quotes not as doubled backtick and prime characters?
When I do a command such as:
man bash
I see quotes shown as:
``...''
There have been posts about why this happens:
Man page quotation characters
Why some strings are quoted with double backticks ...
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How to add a dot to a raw man file at the end of a line?
I've got a fragment of a manual file which looks like this:
.TP
.I krb5_key_file
Location of the key for this client's principal.
Note that the key file must be owned by root and mode 0400.
The ...
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TROFF to pdf or docx conversion?
I have my partially complete PhD thesis in TROFF format (?) - so it would laser print from the unix station back then. It has had a layer of Atari 1stWord encapsulation, which may still be at the ...
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How do I generate manpages using escape codes for bold, etc.?
While inspecting the source code of less, I noticed that the included manpage (less.man) used terminal escape codes for showing bold text:
^[[1mNAME^[[0m
less - opposite of more
^[[1mSYNOPSIS^...
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Man page quotation characters [duplicate]
I've just been looking through a few man pages for a few different commands including grep and ifconfig.
I've noticed over a few pages, the content uses a strange syntax to notate what i think are ...
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Properly inserting code samples in man pages
I'm trying to write a man page for a software, and would like to include some code snippets. I'm currently using the .RS and .RE macros as part of a custom-made .SAMPLE macro, but for some reason that ...
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troff to PDF conversion
I am very new to UNIX and trying to learn troff. I have some set of very old written troff files (before 20 years from now).
Some samples are hereunder:
file_00.g
B,4.5,3.5,15.5,23.5
D,1.3,1.25,1.5,...
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groff to PS Conversion
I am very new to UNIX, learning groff with the help of cygwin on Windows XP SP3.
I have downloaded groff-binaries from here, but using cygwin, I could not able to re-produce ps files.
I have used ...
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Emacs mode for man pages
I'm translating man pages, and have run in to a few problems with Emacs.
How do you specify language? (With man, it looks like this man -Lsv shutdown for the Swedish "sv" subdirectory, if available.)
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Find and install man file manually
I seem to be missing some man pages, notably gcc and g++. It doesn't help that I specify the section. whereis doesn't list man pages for those two, so I think they are simply not there.
With Google I ...
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Nested lists in man page
I have a command line parameter that takes a number of flags afterwards, which I would like to have as a list inside the parameter list in the man page.
Currently I am simply making lines of Flag - ...
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