Groff (GNU Troff) 1.19.2 review

The groff (GNU Troff) software is a typesetting package which reads plain text mixed with formatting commands and produces formatted

License: GPL (GNU General Public License) File size: 2835K Developer: Groff Team

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The groff (GNU Troff) software is a typesetting package which reads plain text mixed with formatting commands and produces formatted output. Groff now supports HTML.

This is the GNU groff document formatting system. The version number is given in the file VERSION.

Included in this release are implementations of troff, pic, eqn, tbl, grn, refer, −man, −mdoc, and −ms macros, and drivers for PostScript, TeX dvi format, HP LaserJet 4 printers, Canon CAPSL printers, HTML format (beta status), and typewriter-like devices. Also included is a modified version of the Berkeley −me macros, an enhanced version of the X11 xditview previewer, and an implementation of the −mm macros contributed by J?rgen H?gg.

See the file INSTALL for installation instructions. You will require a C++ compiler.

The file NEWS describes recent user-visible changes to groff.

Groff is free software. See the file COPYING for copying permission.

The file PROBLEMS describes various problems that have been encountered in compiling, installing, and running groff.

What's New in This Release:
Analogously to the .ft and f pair, two new requests ‘gcolor’ and ‘fcolor’ (which pair with m and M, respectively) have been added to set the glyph and background colours.
A new read-only, string-valued register ‘.sty’ returns the name of the current style.
Two new conditional operators ‘F 〈name〉’ and ‘S 〈name〉’ have been added. ‘F’ is true if a font 〈name〉 exists. ‘S’ is true if a style 〈name〉 has been registered.
Cyrillic characters have been added to the ‘utf8’ and ‘html’ output devices.