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| author | Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org> | 2024-04-15 19:44:05 +0000 |
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| committer | Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org> | 2024-04-15 19:44:05 +0000 |
| commit | d318611dd6f23fcfedd50e9b9e24620b102ba96a (patch) | |
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Adding upstream version 1.23.0.upstream/1.23.0upstream
Signed-off-by: Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org>
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diff --git a/doc/groff.html.node/groff-Capabilities.html b/doc/groff.html.node/groff-Capabilities.html new file mode 100644 index 0000000..424779a --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/groff.html.node/groff-Capabilities.html @@ -0,0 +1,91 @@ +<!DOCTYPE html> +<html> +<!-- Created by GNU Texinfo 7.0.3, https://www.gnu.org/software/texinfo/ --> +<head> +<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> +<!-- This manual documents GNU troff version 1.23.0. + +Copyright © 1994-2023 Free Software Foundation, Inc. + +Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document +under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.3 or +any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no +Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A +copy of the license is included in the section entitled "GNU Free +Documentation License". --> +<title>groff Capabilities (The GNU Troff Manual)</title> + +<meta name="description" content="groff Capabilities (The GNU Troff Manual)"> +<meta name="keywords" content="groff Capabilities (The GNU Troff Manual)"> +<meta name="resource-type" content="document"> +<meta name="distribution" content="global"> +<meta name="Generator" content="makeinfo"> +<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width,initial-scale=1"> + +<link href="index.html" rel="start" title="Top"> +<link href="Request-Index.html" rel="index" title="Request Index"> +<link href="index.html#SEC_Contents" rel="contents" title="Table of Contents"> +<link href="Introduction.html" rel="up" title="Introduction"> +<link href="Macro-Package-Intro.html" rel="next" title="Macro Package Intro"> +<link href="What-Is-groff_003f.html" rel="prev" title="What Is groff?"> +<style type="text/css"> +<!-- +ul.mark-bullet {list-style-type: disc} +--> +</style> + + +</head> + +<body lang="en"> +<div class="section-level-extent" id="groff-Capabilities"> +<div class="nav-panel"> +<p> +Next: <a href="Macro-Package-Intro.html" accesskey="n" rel="next">Macro Packages</a>, Previous: <a href="What-Is-groff_003f.html" accesskey="p" rel="prev">What Is <code class="code">groff</code>?</a>, Up: <a href="Introduction.html" accesskey="u" rel="up">Introduction</a> [<a href="index.html#SEC_Contents" title="Table of contents" rel="contents">Contents</a>][<a href="Request-Index.html" title="Index" rel="index">Index</a>]</p> +</div> +<hr> +<h3 class="section" id="groff-Capabilities-1">1.3 <code class="code">groff</code> Capabilities</h3> +<a class="index-entry-id" id="index-groff-capabilities"></a> +<a class="index-entry-id" id="index-capabilities-of-groff"></a> + +<p>GNU <code class="code">troff</code> is a typesetting document formatter; it provides a wide +range of low-level text and page operations within the framework of a +programming language. These operations compose to generate footnotes, +tables of contents, mathematical equations, diagrams, multi-column text, +and other elements of typeset works. Here is a survey of formatter +features; all are under precise user control. +</p> +<ul class="itemize mark-bullet"> +<li>text filling, breaking, alignment to the left or right margin; centering + +</li><li>adjustment of inter-word space size to justify text, and of +inter-sentence space size to suit local style conventions + +</li><li>automatic and manual determination of hyphenation break points + +</li><li>pagination + +</li><li>selection of any font available to the output device + +</li><li>adjustment of type size and vertical spacing (or “leading”) + +</li><li>configuration of line length and indentation amounts; columnation + +</li><li>drawing of geometric primitives (lines, arcs, polygons, circles, +…) + +</li><li>setup of stroke and fill colors (where supported by the output +device) + +</li><li>embedding of hyperlinks, images, document metadata, and other inclusions +(where supported by the output device) +</li></ul> + + + +</div> + + + +</body> +</html> |