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aim of this document is to help people understand ROFF, and its uses beyond that of manpages -- which is being slowly superceded by mandoc(1) anyways.
- 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:
(All these come with a short description, mind you -- The requests have their signature)
- And finally, there are several examples in the
examplesdirectory. 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?