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authorMatthew Burgess <matthew@linuxfromscratch.org>2004-05-03 10:59:46 +0000
committerMatthew Burgess <matthew@linuxfromscratch.org>2004-05-03 10:59:46 +0000
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@@ -1,16 +1,23 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
+<!DOCTYPE sect1 PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.3//EN" "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.3/docbookx.dtd" [
+ <!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../general.ent">
+ %general-entities;
+]>
<sect1 id="ch-system-groff" xreflabel="Groff">
-<title>Installing Groff-&groff-version;</title>
-<?dbhtml filename="groff.html" dir="chapter06"?>
+<title>Groff-&groff-version;</title>
+<?dbhtml filename="groff.html"?>
+
+<indexterm zone="ch-system-groff"><primary sortas="a-Groff">Groff</primary></indexterm>
<para>The Groff package contains programs for processing and formatting text.</para>
-<screen>&buildtime; &groff-time;
-&diskspace; &groff-compsize;</screen>
+<screen>&buildtime; 0.5 SBU
+&diskspace; 43 MB</screen>
+
+<para>Groff installation depends on: Bash, Binutils, Coreutils, Diffutils,
+Gawk, GCC, Glibc, Grep, Make, Sed.</para>
-&aa-groff-down;
-&aa-groff-dep;
-<sect2><title>&nbsp;</title><para>&nbsp;</para></sect2>
<sect2>
<title>Installation of Groff</title>
@@ -28,7 +35,7 @@ live elsewhere, you may want to change <emphasis>PAGE=letter</emphasis> to
<screen><userinput>make</userinput></screen>
-<para>And install it:</para>
+<para>Now install it:</para>
<screen><userinput>make install</userinput></screen>
@@ -41,8 +48,156 @@ ln -s tbl /usr/bin/gtbl</userinput></screen>
</sect2>
-&aa-groff-shortdesc;
-&aa-groff-desc;
-</sect1>
+<sect2 id="contents-groff"><title>Contents of Groff</title>
+
+<para><emphasis>Installed programs</emphasis>: addftinfo, afmtodit, eqn,
+eqn2graph, geqn (link to eqn), grn, grodvi, groff, groffer, grog, grolbp,
+grolj4, grops, grotty, gtbl (link to tbl), hpftodit, indxbib, lkbib,
+lookbib, mmroff, neqn, nroff, pfbtops, pic, pic2graph, post-grohtml,
+pre-grohtml, refer, soelim, tbl, tfmtodit, troff and zsoelim (link to
+soelim)</para>
+
+</sect2>
+
+<sect2><title>Short descriptions</title>
+
+<indexterm zone="ch-system-groff addftinfo"><primary sortas="b-addftinfo">addftinfo</primary></indexterm>
+<para id="addftinfo"><command>addftinfo</command> reads a troff font file and adds some
+additional font-metric information that is used by the groff system.</para>
+
+<indexterm zone="ch-system-groff afmtodit"><primary sortas="b-afmtodit">afmtodit</primary></indexterm>
+<para id="afmtodit"><command>afmtodit</command> creates a font file for use with
+groff and grops.</para>
+
+<indexterm zone="ch-system-groff eqn"><primary sortas="b-eqn">eqn</primary></indexterm>
+<para id="eqn"><command>eqn</command> compiles descriptions of equations embedded
+within troff input files into commands that are understood by troff.</para>
+
+<indexterm zone="ch-system-groff eqn2graph"><primary sortas="b-eqn2graph">eqn2graph</primary></indexterm>
+<para id="eqn2graph"><command>eqn2graph</command> converts an EQN equation into a cropped
+image.</para>
+
+<indexterm zone="ch-system-groff grn"><primary sortas="b-grn">grn</primary></indexterm>
+<para id="grn"><command>grn</command> is a groff preprocessor for gremlin files.</para>
+
+<indexterm zone="ch-system-groff grodvi"><primary sortas="b-grodvi">grodvi</primary></indexterm>
+<para id="grodvi"><command>grodvi</command> is a driver for groff that produces TeX dvi format.</para>
+
+<indexterm zone="ch-system-groff groff"><primary sortas="b-groff">groff</primary></indexterm>
+<para id="groff"><command>groff</command> is a front-end to the groff document
+formatting system. Normally it runs the troff program and a post-processor
+appropriate for the selected device.</para>
+
+<indexterm zone="ch-system-groff groffer"><primary sortas="b-groffer">groffer</primary></indexterm>
+<para id="groffer"><command>groffer</command> displays groff files and man pages on X
+and tty terminals.</para>
+
+<indexterm zone="ch-system-groff grog"><primary sortas="b-grog">grog</primary></indexterm>
+<para id="grog"><command>grog</command> reads files and guesses which of the groff
+options -e, -man, -me, -mm, -ms, -p, -s, and -t are required for printing
+files, and reports the groff command including those options.</para>
+
+<indexterm zone="ch-system-groff grolbp"><primary sortas="b-grolbp">grolbp</primary></indexterm>
+<para id="grolbp"><command>grolbp</command> is a groff driver for Canon CAPSL printers
+(LBP-4 and LBP-8 series laser printers).</para>
+
+<indexterm zone="ch-system-groff grolj4"><primary sortas="b-grolj4">grolj4</primary></indexterm>
+<para id="grolj4"><command>grolj4</command> is a driver for groff that produces output
+in PCL5 format suitable for an HP Laserjet 4 printer.</para>
+
+<indexterm zone="ch-system-groff grops"><primary sortas="b-grops">grops</primary></indexterm>
+<para id="grops"><command>grops</command> translates the output of GNU troff to
+Postscript.</para>
+<indexterm zone="ch-system-groff grotty"><primary sortas="b-grotty">grotty</primary></indexterm>
+<para id="grotty"><command>grotty</command> translates the output of GNU troff into
+a form suitable for typewriter-like devices.</para>
+
+<indexterm zone="ch-system-groff gtbl"><primary sortas="b-gtbl">gtbl</primary></indexterm>
+<para id="gtbl"><command>gtbl</command> is the GNU implementation of tbl.</para>
+
+<indexterm zone="ch-system-groff hpftodit"><primary sortas="b-hpftodit">hpftodit</primary></indexterm>
+<para id="hpftodit"><command>hpftodit</command> creates a font file for use with
+groff -Tlj4 from an HP-tagged font metric file.</para>
+
+<indexterm zone="ch-system-groff indxbib"><primary sortas="b-indxbib">indxbib</primary></indexterm>
+<para id="indxbib"><command>indxbib</command> makes an inverted index for the
+bibliographic databases a specified file for use with refer, lookbib,
+and lkbib.</para>
+
+<indexterm zone="ch-system-groff lkbib"><primary sortas="b-lkbib">lkbib</primary></indexterm>
+<para id="lkbib"><command>lkbib</command> searches bibliographic databases for
+references that contain specified keys and reports any references found.</para>
+
+<indexterm zone="ch-system-groff lookbib"><primary sortas="b-lookbib">lookbib</primary></indexterm>
+<para id="lookbib"><command>lookbib</command> prints a prompt on the standard error
+(unless the standard input is not a terminal), reads from the standard input
+a line containing a set of keywords, searches the bibliographic databases in
+a specified file for references containing those keywords, prints any
+references found on the standard output and repeats this process until the
+end of input.</para>
+
+<indexterm zone="ch-system-groff mmroff"><primary sortas="b-mmroff">mmroff</primary></indexterm>
+<para id="mmroff"><command>mmroff</command> is a simple preprocessor for groff.</para>
+
+<indexterm zone="ch-system-groff neqn"><primary sortas="b-neqn">neqn</primary></indexterm>
+<para id="neqn"><command>neqn</command> formats equations for ASCII (American Standard Code for Information Interchange) output.</para>
+
+<indexterm zone="ch-system-groff nroff"><primary sortas="b-nroff">nroff</primary></indexterm>
+<para id="nroff"><command>nroff</command> is a script that emulates the nroff command
+using groff.</para>
+
+<indexterm zone="ch-system-groff pfbtops"><primary sortas="b-pfbtops">pfbtops</primary></indexterm>
+<para id="pfbtops"><command>pfbtops</command> translates a Postscript font in .pfb
+format to ASCII.</para>
+
+<indexterm zone="ch-system-groff pic"><primary sortas="b-pic">pic</primary></indexterm>
+<para id="pic"><command>pic</command> compiles descriptions of pictures embedded
+within troff or TeX input files into commands understood by TeX or troff.</para>
+
+<indexterm zone="ch-system-groff pic2graph"><primary sortas="b-pic2graph">pic2graph</primary></indexterm>
+<para id="pic2graph"><command>pic2graph</command> converts a PIC diagram into a cropped
+image.</para>
+
+<indexterm zone="ch-system-groff pre-grohtml"><primary sortas="b-pre-grohtml">pre-grohtml</primary></indexterm>
+<para id="pre-grohtml"><command>pre-grohtml </command> translates the output of GNU troff
+to html.</para>
+
+<indexterm zone="ch-system-groff post-grohtml"><primary sortas="b-post-grohtml">post-grohtml</primary></indexterm>
+<para id="post-grohtml"><command>post-grohtml</command> translates the output of GNU troff
+to html.</para>
+
+<indexterm zone="ch-system-groff refer"><primary sortas="b-refer">refer</primary></indexterm>
+<para id="refer"><command>refer</command> copies the contents of a file to the
+standard output, except that lines between .[ and .] are interpreted as
+citations, and lines between .R1 and .R2 are interpreted as commands about
+how citations are to be processed.</para>
+
+<indexterm zone="ch-system-groff soelim"><primary sortas="b-soelim">soelim</primary></indexterm>
+<para id="soelim"><command>soelim</command> reads files and replaces lines of the form
+<emphasis>.so file</emphasis> by the contents of the mentioned
+<emphasis>file</emphasis>.</para>
+
+<indexterm zone="ch-system-groff tbl"><primary sortas="b-tbl">tbl</primary></indexterm>
+<para id="tbl"><command>tbl</command> compiles descriptions of tables embedded
+within troff input files into commands that are understood by troff.</para>
+
+<indexterm zone="ch-system-groff tfmtodit"><primary sortas="b-tfmtodit">tfmtodit</primary></indexterm>
+<para id="tfmtodit"><command>tfmtodit</command> creates a font file for use with
+groff -Tdvi.</para>
+
+<indexterm zone="ch-system-groff troff"><primary sortas="b-troff">troff</primary></indexterm>
+<para id="troff"><command>troff</command> is highly compatible with Unix troff.
+Usually it should be invoked using the groff command, which will also run
+preprocessors and post-processors in the appropriate order and with the
+appropriate options.</para>
+
+<indexterm zone="ch-system-groff zsoelim"><primary sortas="b-zsoelim">zsoelim</primary></indexterm>
+<para id="zsoelim"><command>zsoelim</command> is the GNU implementation of soelim.</para>
+
+</sect2>
+
+
+
+</sect1>