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Question 1

I want to create a text file of a man page that includes pagination. This will allow later to send to a legacy line/matrix printer. This implies that the command header and footer will be repeated in ...

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For a man page written in POD (perlpod) I had the effect that the SYNOPSIS was left-adjusted on the text terminal, but the PostScript output (read: troff) adjusted the text to both borders. So I tried ...

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I'm on Linux Mint 21 (Ubuntu based). Just noted man pages internal search (/) does not find a word if split between two lines (the word is whole in the source of the page, displayed with a hyphen and ...

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 ...

Question 15

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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Questions tagged [roff]

Creating a text file from man page including pagination

Is groff ignoring `.nh` command?

Word split between two lines is not found in man pages search

Two Columns For Text And One For Footnotes In Groff

Delete columns that contains only numbers

How do I create a table using tbl command [duplicate]

How do I output an individual eqn described equation to a .ps or .eps?

How do I scale a whole figure in pic?

How can I include a pic figure as external file in groff?

Are ∈ and ℝ symbols available in eqn/roff?

Inserting the date in groff

Is there a way to prevent line breaks in man pages?

groff registers not defined during macro

Does Groff have an updated formatting algorithm (Knuth-Plass/other)?

Is Troff Turing complete?

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