groff

Groff (GNU troff) is a typesetting system that reads plain text mixed with formatting commands and produces formatted output. Output may be PostScript or PDF, html, or ASCII/UTF8 for display at the terminal. Formatting commands may be either low-level typesetting requests (“primitives”) or macros from a supplied set. Users may also write their own macros. All three may be combined.

Maintainers

• The Core Planners: chef-core-planners@chef.io

Type of Package

Binary package

Use as Dependency

Binary packages can be set as runtime or build time dependencies. See Defining your dependencies for more information.

To add core/groff as a depdendency, you can add one of the following to your plan file.

Buildtime Dependency

pkg_build_deps=(core/groff)

Runtime Depdendency

pkg_deps=(core/groff)

Use as Tool

Installation

To install this plan, you should run the following commands to first install, and then link the binaries this plan creates.

hab pkg install core/groff

» Installing core/groff

☁ Determining latest version of core/groff in the 'stable' channel

☛ Verifying core/groff/1.22.3/20200310035713

✓ Installed core/groff/1.22.3/20200310035713

★ Install of core/groff/1.22.3/20200310035713 complete with 1 new packages installed.

hab pkg binlink core/groff

» Binlinking roff2ps from core/groff into /bin

★ Binlinked roff2ps from core/groff/1.22.3/20200310035713 to /bin/roff2ps

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Using an example binary

You can now use the binary as normal:

/bin/groff --help or groff --help

usage: groff [-abceghijklpstvzCEGNRSUVXZ] [-dcs] [-ffam] [-mname] [-nnum]
       [-olist] [-rcn] [-wname] [-Darg] [-Fdir] [-Idir] [-Karg] [-Larg]
       [-Mdir] [-Parg] [-Tdev] [-Wname] [files...]

-h      print this message
-v      print version number
-e      preprocess with eqn
-g      preprocess with grn
-j      preprocess with chem
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