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Roff Writer
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:Status: stale
:See also: project gutenberg nroff writer
:Date: 2014-01-03

What is roff
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roff, in it's many variants nroff, troff, groff, are UNIX programms for
formatting text files.

* nroff is for line printers (who ever can remeber these) and output on
  screen, man pages (?) .
* troff is the typesetting variant.
* groff is the gnu version.

Why roff
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Fun, another way to make rst to postscript. roff is impressive small
and quick.