ROFF: Not Just for Manpages! In this repository, you'll find riches if you are a typesetting nerd, and a UNIX geek, like me. The aim of this document is to help people understand ROFF, and its uses beyond that of manpages -- which is being slowly superceded by mandoc(1) anyways. Your Guide to this Repository First, in the 'documents' directory: Short History of ROFF The Terse Syntax of ROFF Macros in ROFF Escape Sequences in ROFF Registers in ROFF ROFF and UNIX Manpages And then, head to the 'datasets' directory to find CSV datasets of: Reqeusts aka Commands Escape Sequences Pre-defined Registers Keywords (GROFF-only) (All these come with a short description, mind you -- The requests have their signature) And finally, there are several examples in the examples directory. You can process them with GROFF. For example, to make PDF from them: cat document.roff | groff -Tpdf To just print them out to your terminal: cat document.roff | groff -Tascii | less The 'roff-utils' directory just contains a very WIP Scheme script. I will add stuff to it later. If you wish to stay alert about additions, changes, etc to this repository, start it perhaps? I am working on an implementation of ROFF. My email: chubakbidpaa [at] riseup [dot] net . Take care. Sony PS 1: If you liked this, take a gander at my PostScript dossier . I have a lot of projects cooking, like atm, I am working on 'RuppVM', a stack machine with Green threads, FFI, and stop-the-world GC I already have the ISA half-baked. Here is where RuppVM will reside til the end of time! . Also, it goes without saying, check my Github profile homepage here . Sony PS 2: I don't really like hosting on Github. But it's the only way to be 'seen' you know?
