About:
The Groff package contains the traditional UN*X text formatting tools troff, nroff, tbl, eqn, and pic. These utilities, together with the man package, are essential for displaying the online manual pages. Output can be produced in a number of formats including plain ASCII and PostScript. All the standard macro packages are supported. A number of other utilities are also included together with several fonts.

Release focus: N/A

Author:
Werner Lemberg <wl (at) gnu (dot) org> [contact developer]

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8.46/10.00 (1 vote)

Homepage:
http://www.gnu.org/software/groff/groff.html
Tar/GZ:
ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/groff/
Changelog:
http://www.gnu.org/software/groff/groff.html
CVS tree (cvsweb):
http://savannah.gnu.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/groff/

Trove categories: [change]

[Environment]		Console (Text Based)
[Intended Audience]		End Users/Desktop
[License]		OSI Approved :: GNU General Public License (GPL)
[Topic]		Text Processing

Dependencies: [change]
No dependencies filed

 Branches

Branch	Version	Last release	License	URLs
Default	1.19.2	14-Oct-2005	GNU General Public License (GPL)

 Releases

Version	Focus	Date
1.19.2	N/A	14-Oct-2005 08:39
1.19.1	Minor feature enhancements	06-Jan-2005 03:01
1.18.1	Major feature enhancements	10-Oct-2002 21:34
1.18	Minor feature enhancements	03-Aug-2002 06:03
1.17.2	Minor bugfixes	27-Aug-2001 11:51
1.16.1	Minor bugfixes	07-May-2001 19:36
1.15	N/A	03-Jan-2000 18:36

 Articles referencing this project

• Red Hat: New groff packages available to fix security problems
  by Patrick Lenz , in Security
  Mon, Jan 14th 2002 12:43
  
• Debian: groff printf format problem
  by Patrick Lenz , in Security
  Fri, Aug 10th 2001 14:43