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diff --git a/MORE.STUFF b/MORE.STUFF new file mode 100644 index 0000000..9b978fc --- /dev/null +++ b/MORE.STUFF @@ -0,0 +1,189 @@ + Copyright 2000-2020 Free Software Foundation, Inc. + + Copying and distribution of this file, with or without modification, + are permitted in any medium without royalty provided the copyright + notice and this notice are preserved. + +Ports of groff to non-POSIX environments +======================================== + +Microsoft Windows +----------------- + +Cygwin makes a groff package available. + + https://cygwin.com/ + +Look for a convenient mirror site at the followung URL. + + https://cygwin.com/mirrors.html + +Cygwin maintains a port status page. + + https://cygwin.com/packages/summary/groff.html + +Cygwin, like most GNU/Linux distributions, separates groff build +artifacts into multiple components, largely for dependency management. +You may find the source package page of interest. + + https://cygwin.com/packages/summary/groff-src.html + +The port is maintained in a Git repository. + + https://cygwin.com/git-cygwin-packages/?p=git/cygwin-packages/groff.git + + +grap +---- + +Ted Faber has written an implementation of Kernighan & Bentley's grap +language for typesetting graphs. + + http://www.lunabase.org/~faber/Vault/software/grap/ + + +troffcvt +-------- + +Per its web page, + + troffcvt is a translator that turns troff input into a form that can + be more easily processed. The troffcvt distribution comes with + postprocessors that turn troffcvt into various destination formats + such as HTML (Hypertext Markup Language), RTF (Rich Text Format) or + plain text. + + http://www.snake.net/software/troffcvt/ + + +unroff +------ + +Per its README file, + + Unroff is a Scheme-based, programmable, extensible troff translator + with a back-end for the Hypertext Markup Language. Unroff is free + software and is distributed both as source and as precompiled + binaries. + + https://www-rn.informatik.uni-bremen.de/software/unroff/ + + +Haart deroff +------------ + +Per its ReadMe.txt file, + + Deroff removes roff constructs from documents for the purpose of + indexing, spell checking etc. My own implementation is a little + smarter than traditional implementations, because it knows about + certain -man and -mm macros. It is able to generate a word list for + spell checking tools or omit headers for sentence analysis tools. + + https://caio.ueberalles.net/deroff/ + + +doclifter +--------- + +Per its web page, + + [doclifter lifts] documents in nroff markups to XML-DocBook. + + Lifting documents from presentation level to semantic level is hard, + and a really good job requires human polishing. This tool aims to do + everything that can be mechanized, and to preserve any troff-level + information that might have structural implications in XML comments. + This tool does the hard parts. TBL tables are translated into DocBook + table markup, PIC into SVG, and EQN into MathML (relying on pic2svg + and GNU eqn for the last two). + + http://catb.org/~esr/doclifter + + +pic2plot +-------- + +pic2plot, part of the GNU plotutils package, can lift pic markup to SVG. +The plotutils package is available at + + http://www.gnu.org/software/plotutils/ + + +Miscellaneous +------------- + +. Ralph Corderoy's excellent page on troff: + + www.troff.org + + There are links for virtually everything related to troff. + +. Dr. Robert Hermann's groff gems are available from + + http://www.eas.slu.edu/People/RBHerrmann/GROFF/index.html + + At present there are examples for + + o creating business cards + o using groff to make large format posters for presentations + +. Robert Marks's collection of useful macros and scripts is available + from + + http://www.agsm.edu.au/~bobm/odds+ends/scripts.html + + Description: + + o `polish': Is a sed (= the Unix stream editor) script that does many + things to ASCII text. Amongst other things, it breaks lines at new + sentences, reduces upper-case acronyms by one point size, adds + diacriticals, changes simple quotes into smart quotes, and makes a + few simple grammar checks. The best way to see what it does is to + run it as a sed script file (or files) on a text file and then + compare the output file with the original. + + o `DropCaps' is a troff script which replaces the initial letters of + paragraphs immediately after H1 and H2 headings with drop-capitals + of specified point size, and automatically flows the text around the + new drop cap. + + o `AJM Header' is a set of troff macros used in production of the + Australian Journal of Management. They use the Memorandum Macros + (mm) of AT&T, and so should be invoked with the Unix troff -mm flag; + they should also work with the GNU troff -mm flag. + +. Thomas Baruchel <baruchel@libertysurf.fr> has developed Meta-tbl, a + tbl postprocessor to manipulate table cells (like adding gray shades). + The latest version can be found at + + http://perso.libertysurf.fr/baruchel/ + +. gpresent, written by Bob Diertens <bobd@science.uva.nl>. From the + README file: + + gpresent is a package for making presentation with groff and + acroread. It consist of a set of macros to be used with groff and a + post-processor for manipulating the PostScript output of groff. + Without the use of the PAUSE macro, it can also be used for making + slides. + + It is available from + + www.science.uva.nl/~bobd/useful/gpresent/ + + +Documentation +------------- + +Documentation of the AT&T implementations of the troff, tbl, pic, eqn, +and refer programs can be found at the following site. + + https://www.troff.org/papers.html + +##### Editor settings +Local Variables: +fill-column: 72 +mode: text +End: +vim: set textwidth=72: |