GNU Troff (Groff) — a GNU project

Table of Contents

• Introduction to Groff
• Downloading Groff
• Documentation
• Mailing Lists

HE groff (GNU troff) software is a typesetting package which reads plain text mixed with formatting commands and produces formatted output.

Downloading Groff

The source code of the currently released versions of groff are available at the GNU host (USA) [via FTP], or can be checked out via CVS. Development snapshots (produced twice a day from the CVS repository), and additional contributions, are available through FFII.

Current version is 1.22.2 (07-Feb-2013).

Platform Binaries:

• Microsoft Windows

GNU troff is released under the GNU General Public License.

User issues lead: Ted Harding.
Technical issues lead: Werner Lemberg.

Documentation

Groff documentation, provided on your system after you install:

• groff --help: a usage summary of options and arguments
• man groff: Extensive explanations and examples of usage
• info groff: A textbook explaining how to use groff in every aspect
• A paper on grohtml

Please also see the README, and other documents referenced therein, provided with the groff source (sometimes installed to /usr/share/doc/groff*),the online manual, and this page.

Mailing Lists

Please report bugs using the form in the file BUG-REPORT (provided with the groff source); the idea of this is to make sure that we have all the information we need to fix the bug. At the very least, read the BUG-REPORT form and make sure that you supply all the information that it asks for. Even if you are not sure that something is a bug, report it using BUG-REPORT: this will enable us to determine whether it really is a bug or not.

Groff now has three mailing lists:

• <bug-groff@gnu.org> for reporting bugs.
• <groff@gnu.org> for general discussing all things groff.
• <groff-commit@gnu.org> a read-only list showing changes to the CVS repository.

To subscribe to any Groff mailing list, please send an empty mail with a Subject: header line of subscribe to the relevant -request list. For example, to subscribe yourself to the main list, you would send mail to <groff-request@gnu.org> with no body and a Subject: header line of only subscribe.

Mailing lists archives can be found at the following locations:

• http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-groff/
• http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/groff/
• http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/groff-commit/