https://www.bencode.io/categories/doco/ Recent content in Doco on Benny Simmonds Hugo -- 0.149.1 en-us Fri, 15 Mar 2019 12:51:10 +0000 https://www.bencode.io/posts/2019-03-15-groff/ Fri, 15 Mar 2019 12:51:10 +0000 https://www.bencode.io/posts/2019-03-15-groff/ <p><em>Update 2019-05-26</em>: While having some familarity with roff is useful, since the time of originally have discovered <a href="https://pandoc.org/">Pandoc</a> which can convert between many document formats, such as from <em>markdown</em> to <em>roff</em>. Writing documentation in markdown is just hard to beat.</p> <p>As the first text formatting program built for UNIX in 1970 running on a PDP-7, <code>roff</code> was a port of the BCPL program <code>RUNOFF</code>.</p> <p>Over the years <code>roff</code> has evolved into <code>troff</code> and the excellent GNU version <code>groff</code>. Similar to other formatting systems, such as LaTeX, <code>groff</code> features a macro system, targetted at authoring certain types of text documents. In spite of its old age, <code>roff</code> is still in wide spread use today, for producing text such as UNIX manual pages, software books, system documentation and standards documents.</p>