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diff --git a/doc/groff.html.node/Text.html b/doc/groff.html.node/Text.html new file mode 100644 index 0000000..16a1d83 --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/groff.html.node/Text.html @@ -0,0 +1,81 @@ +<!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>Text (The GNU Troff Manual)</title> + +<meta name="description" content="Text (The GNU Troff Manual)"> +<meta name="keywords" content="Text (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="GNU-troff-Reference.html" rel="up" title="GNU troff Reference"> +<link href="Measurements.html" rel="next" title="Measurements"> +<link href="GNU-troff-Reference.html" rel="prev" title="GNU troff Reference"> + + +</head> + +<body lang="en"> +<div class="section-level-extent" id="Text"> +<div class="nav-panel"> +<p> +Next: <a href="Measurements.html" accesskey="n" rel="next">Measurements</a>, Previous: <a href="GNU-troff-Reference.html" accesskey="p" rel="prev">GNU <code class="code">troff</code> Reference</a>, Up: <a href="GNU-troff-Reference.html" accesskey="u" rel="up">GNU <code class="code">troff</code> Reference</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="Text-1">5.1 Text</h3> +<a class="index-entry-id" id="index-text_002c-GNU-troff-processing"></a> + +<p><abbr class="acronym">AT&T</abbr> <code class="code">troff</code> was designed to take input as it would be +composed on a typewriter, including the teletypewriters used as early +computer terminals, and relieve the user drafting a document of concern +with details like line length, hyphenation breaking, and the achievement +of straight margins. Early in its development, the program gained the +ability to prepare output for a phototypesetter; a document could then +be prepared for output to either a teletypewriter, a phototypesetter, or +both. GNU <code class="code">troff</code> continues this tradition of permitting an author +to compose a single master version of a document which can then be +rendered for a variety of output formats or devices. +</p> +<p><code class="code">roff</code> input files contain text interspersed with instructions to +control the formatter. Even in the absence of such instructions, GNU +<code class="code">troff</code> still processes its input in several ways, by filling, +hyphenating, breaking, and adjusting it, and supplementing it with +inter-sentence space. +</p> + + +<ul class="mini-toc"> +<li><a href="Filling.html" accesskey="1">Filling</a></li> +<li><a href="Sentences.html" accesskey="2">Sentences</a></li> +<li><a href="Hyphenation.html" accesskey="3">Hyphenation</a></li> +<li><a href="Breaking.html" accesskey="4">Breaking</a></li> +<li><a href="Adjustment.html" accesskey="5">Adjustment</a></li> +<li><a href="Tabs-and-Leaders.html" accesskey="6">Tabs and Leaders</a></li> +<li><a href="Requests-and-Macros.html" accesskey="7">Requests and Macros</a></li> +<li><a href="Macro-Packages.html" accesskey="8">Macro Packages</a></li> +<li><a href="Input-Encodings.html" accesskey="9">Input Encodings</a></li> +<li><a href="Input-Conventions.html">Input Conventions</a></li> +</ul> +</div> + + + +</body> +</html> |