groff ☆

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Description:
GNU troff text-formatting system

Type: Formula | Tracked Since: Dec 28, 2025

Links: Homepage | formulae.brew.sh

Category: System utilities

Tags: text-processing typesetting documentation unix gnu

Install: brew install groff

About:
Groff is a GNU implementation of the classic troff typesetting system. It processes plain text files marked up with troff macros into formatted output like PostScript, PDF, and HTML. It is the engine behind most man pages on Unix-like systems.

Key Features:

Multi-format output generation (PostScript, PDF, HTML, TeX)
Extensible macro packages (ms, me, man, mdoc)
Preprocessors for tables (tbl), equations (eqn), and diagrams (pic)
Robust text formatting and layout control

Use Cases:

Generating Unix/Linux manual pages
Typesetting technical documents and books
Converting text markup to printable formats

Alternatives:

mandoc – Specialized for man pages; faster and smaller than groff but less feature-rich for general typesetting.

Version History

Detected	Version	Rev	Change	Commit
Sep 14, 2025 10:22pm		1	VERSION_BUMP	c27fb98e
Nov 25, 2024 10:36pm		1	VERSION_BUMP	34053226