Описание тега troff

troff is a typesetting language for producing documents. While popular a long time ago (most famous computer science books were written with troff), nowadays its use is primarily related to writing man pages and most modern usage is done with groff instead. There are a set of tools (pre-processors) that work with troff/groff that enhance its functionality:

• tbl - writing tables
• pic - mainly for writing diagrams and flow charts
• chem - drawing chemical structure diagrams
• eqn - writing mathematical equations

References

• https://troff.org/
  • Macro Packages
  • Books written in troff
  • Pre-processors
• Troff User’s Manual
• The history of troff
• troff(1) man page

Related Tags

• groff - the open source version of the tool
• man
• manual
• tbl