Troff/Groff Resources

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The Gist

This is a list of resources for troff, the original Unix system for typesetting documents. Below will be a list of resources for troff, nroff, preprocessors & more associated tools.

List

• Troff.org
• Unix Text Processing rewritten source code, originally published in 1987.
• Unix Text Processing (PDF)
• CSTR 54: Bell Labs Troff User's Manual
• The GNU Troff (groff) Manual
• The GNU Troff (groff) Mailing List
• The Groff Friends Howto from Dean Allen Provins
• GNU PIC Guide from Eric S. Raymond (esr)
• Bell Labs pic Guide
• Bell Labs grap Guide
• TAR file containing a grap implementation
• Bell Labs chem Guide
• tbl Preprocessor Guide by Cherry & Lesk
• refer Bibliography System Guide from Bill Tuthill
• Typesetting Mathematics (eqn) Second Edition by Kernighan & Cherry
• Typesetting Mathematics with GNU eqn by Ted Harding
• -ms Macros Guide from Cherry & Lesk
• -ms Macros Reference from Cherry & Lesk (2?)
• -me Macros Guide by Eric Allman
• -mm Macros Manual
• -me Macros Reference by Eric Allman
• -mom Macros by Peter Schaffter
• eqn: Formatting Equations in groff by Douglas Rumbaugh
• Massive groff examples repository (Thanks lkh!)
• Formatting Academic Papers with -me Macros by Jim Hall
• [VIDEO] Writing Documents with nroff -me by Jim Hall
• [VIDEO] Minimalist Documents with groff from Luke Smith
• [VIDEO] Customizing groff Macros from Luke Smith
• [VIDEO] Refer Bibliographies from Luke Smith
• [VIDEO] EQN Mathematics from Luke Smith
• [VIDEO PLAYLIST] Troff/Groff Tutorials from Gavin Freeborn
• Groff -mm and -me macro cheatsheets (source)
• PDF version of the -me cheatsheet by Bob Hepple
• PDF version of the -mm cheatsheet by Bob Hepple
• Heirloom Doctools: A featureful troff implementation from real Unix sources
• Heirloom Quickstart
• Heirloom Troff Manual
• Heirloom Doctools Source code
• NetHack Guidebook (vers 3.6.7) source, written in troff
• Troff Source code to the PSD/USD/SMM 4.4BSD documentation books. Incomplete, does not build but is useful for learning. (As of 2024-Aug-18)