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GROFF_OUT(5)                                                      GROFF_OUT(5)



NAME
       groff_out - groff intermediate output format

DESCRIPTION
       This  manual  page describes the intermediate output format of the GNU roff(7) text
       processing system.  This output is produced by a run of the  GNU  troff(1)  program
       before it is fed into a device postprocessor program.

       As the GNU roff processor groff(1) is a wrapper program around troff that automati-
       cally calls a postprocessor, this output does not show up normally.  This is why it
       is  called  intermediate  within  the groff system.  The groff program provides the
       option -Z to inhibit postprocessing, such that the produced intermediate output  is
       sent to standard output just like calling troff manually.

       In  this  document, the term troff output describes what is output by the GNU troff
       program, while intermediate output refers to the language that is accepted  by  the
       parser that prepares this output for the postprocessors.  This parser is smarter on
       whitespace and implements obsolete elements for compatibility, otherwise both  for-
       mats are the same.  The pre-groff roff versions are denoted as classical troff.

       The  main  purpose of the intermediate output concept is to facilitate the develop-
       ment of postprocessors by providing a common programming interface for all devices.
       It  has  a  language of its own that is completely different from the groff(7) lan-
       guage.  While the groff language is a high-level programming language for text pro-
       cessing, the intermediate output language is a kind of low-level assembler language
       by specifying all positions on the page for writing and drawing.

       The intermediate output produced by groff is fairly readable, while classical troff
       output  was  hard to understand because of strange habits that are still supported,
       but not used any longer by GNU troff.

LANGUAGE CONCEPTS
       During the run of troff, the roff input is cracked down to the information on  what
       has  to be printed at what position on the intended device.  So the language of the
       intermediate output format can be quite small.  Its only elements are commands with
       or  without  arguments.   In this document, the term "command" always refers to the
       intermediate output language, never to the roff language used for document  format-
       ting.   There  are  commands for positioning and text writing, for drawing, and for
       device controlling.

   Separation
       Classical troff output had strange requirements on whitespace.   The  groff  output
       parser,  however,  is  smart about whitespace by making it maximally optional.  The
       whitespace characters, i.e. the tab, space, and newline characters, always  have  a
       syntactical meaning.  They are never printable because spacing within the output is
       always done by positioning commands.

       Any sequence of space or tab characters is treated as a single  syntactical  space.
       It  separates commands and arguments, but is only required when there would occur a
       clashing between the command code and the arguments without the space.  Most often,
       this happens when variable length command names, arguments, argument lists, or com-
       mand clusters meet.  Commands and arguments with a known, fixed length need not  be
       separated by syntactical space.

       A line break is a syntactical element, too.  Every command argument can be followed
       by whitespace, a comment, or a newline character.  Thus a syntactical line break is
       defined  to  consist of optional syntactical space that is optionally followed by a
       comment, and a newline character.

       The normal commands, those for positioning and text, consist  of  a  single  letter
       taking  a  fixed number of arguments.  For historical reasons, the parser allows to
       stack such commands on the  same  line,  but  fortunately,  in  groff  intermediate
       output,  every command with at least one argument is followed by a line break, thus
       providing excellent readability.

       The other commands — those for drawing and device controlling — have a more compli-
       cated structure; some recognize long command names, and some take a variable number
       of arguments.  So all D and x commands were designed to request a syntactical  line
       break  after their last argument.  Only one command, ‘x X’ has an argument that can
       stretch over several lines, all other commands must have all of their arguments  on
       the  same  line  as  the  command, i.e. the arguments may not be splitted by a line
       break.

       Empty lines, i.e. lines containing only space and/or a comment,  can  occur  every-
       where.  They are just ignored.

   Argument Units
       Some commands take integer arguments that are assumed to represent values in a mea-
       surement unit, but the letter for the corresponding scale indicator is not  written
       with the output command arguments; see groff(7) and the groff info file for more on
       this topic.  Most commands assume the scale indicator u,  the  basic  unit  of  the
       device,  some use z, the scaled point unit of the device, while others, such as the
       color commands expect plain integers.  Note that these scale indicators  are  rela-
       tive  to  the  chosen  device.  They are defined by the parameters specified in the
       device’s DESC file; see groff_font(5).

       Note that single characters can have the eighth bit set, as can the names of  fonts
       and  special  characters.   The  names  of characters and fonts can be of arbitrary
       length.  A character that is to be printed will always be in the current font.

       A string argument is always terminated by the  next  whitespace  character  (space,
       tab,  or newline); an embedded # character is regarded as part of the argument, not
       as the beginning of a comment command.  An integer argument is  already  terminated
       by  the  next non-digit character, which then is regarded as the first character of
       the next argument or command.

   Document Parts
       A correct intermediate output document consists of two parts, the prologue and  the
       body.

       The  task  of  the  prologue  is  to  set the general device parameters using three
       exactly specified commands.  The groff prologue is guaranteed  to  consist  of  the
       following three lines (in that order):

              x T device
              x res n h v
              x init

       with the arguments set as outlined in the section Device Control Commands.  But the
       parser for the intermediate output format is able to swallow additional  whitespace
       and comments as well.

       The  body  is the main section for processing the document data.  Syntactically, it
       is a sequence of any commands different from the ones used in the  prologue.   Pro-
       cessing  is terminated as soon as the first x stop command is encountered; the last
       line of any groff intermediate output always contains such a command.

       Semantically, the body is page oriented.  A new page is started  by  a  p  command.
       Positioning, writing, and drawing commands are always done within the current page,
       so they cannot occur before the first p command.  Absolute positioning  (by  the  H
       and V commands) is done relative to the current page, all other positioning is done
       relative to the current location within this page.

COMMAND REFERENCE
       This section describes all intermediate output commands, the classical commands  as
       well as the groff extensions.

   Comment Command
       #anythingâŒâŒ©end_of_lineâŒâŒª
              A  comment.   Ignore any characters from the # character up to the next new-
              line character.

       This command is the only possibility for commenting  in  the  intermediate  output.
       Each  comment  can be preceded by arbitrary syntactical space; every command can be
       terminated by a comment.

   Simple Commands
       The commands in this subsection have a command code consisting of a single  charac-
       ter, taking a fixed number of arguments.  Most of them are commands for positioning
       and text writing.  These commands are smart about whitespace.  Optionally,  syntac-
       tical  space  can be inserted before, after, and between the command letter and its
       arguments.  All of these commands are stackable, i.e.,  they  can  be  preceded  by
       other  simple commands or followed by arbitrary other commands on the same line.  A
       separating syntactical space is only necessary when  two  integer  arguments  would
       clash or if the preceding argument ends with a string argument.

       C xxx〈white_space〉
              Print  a  special groff character named xxx.  The trailing syntactical space
              or line break is necessary to allow character  names  of  arbitrary  length.
              The character is printed at the current print position; the character’s size
              is read from the font file.  The print position is not changed.

       c c    Print character c at the current print position;  the  character’s  size  is
              read from the font file.  The print position is not changed.

       f n    Set font to font number n (a non-negative integer).

       H n    Move  right  to  the absolute vertical position n (a non-negative integer in
              basic units u) relative to left edge of current page.

       h n    Move n (a non-negative integer) basic units u  horizontally  to  the  right.
              [54] allows negative values for n also, but groff doesn’t use this.

       m color_scheme [component ...]
              Set  the  color  for text (glyphs), line drawing, and the outline of graphic
              objects using different color schemes; the analoguous command for the  fill-
              ing  color  of graphic objects is DF.  The color components are specified as
              integer arguments between 0 and 65536.  The number of color  components  and
              their meaning vary for the different color schemes.  These commands are gen-
              erated by the groff escape sequence \m.  No position changing.   These  com-
              mands are a groff extension.

              mc cyan magenta yellow
                     Set  color  using the CMY color scheme, having the 3 color components
                     cyan, magenta, and yellow.

              md     Set color to the default color value (black in most cases).  No  com-
                     ponent arguments.

              mg gray
                     Set  color  to  the  shade  of gray given by the argument, an integer
                     between 0 (black) and 65536 (white).

              mk cyan magenta yellow black
                     Set color using the CMYK color scheme, having the 4 color  components
                     cyan, magenta, yellow, and black.

              mr red green blue
                     Set  color  using the RGB color scheme, having the 3 color components
                     red, green, and blue.

       N n    Print character with index n (a non-negative integer) of the  current  font.
              The print position is not changed.  This command is a groff extension.

       n b a  Inform  the  device  about  a line break, but no positioning is done by this
              command.  In classical troff, the integer arguments b and a  informed  about
              the  space before and after the current line to make the intermediate output
              more human readable without performing any action.  In groff, they are  just
              ignored, but they must be provided for compatibility reasons.

       p n    Begin  a  new page in the outprint.  The page number is set to n.  This page
              is completely independent of pages formerly processed even if those have the
              same  page  number.   The vertical position on the outprint is automatically
              set to 0.  All positioning, writing, and drawing is always done relative  to
              a page, so a p command must be issued before any of these commands.

       s n    Set  point size to n scaled points (this is unit z in GNU troff).  Classical
              troff used the unit points (p) instead; see section COMPATIBILITY.

       t xxx〈white_space〉
       t xxx dummy_arg〈white_space〉
              Print a word, i.e. a sequence of characters xxx terminated by a space  char-
              acter  or a line break; an optional second integer argument is ignored (this
              allows the formatter to generate an even number of  arguments).   The  first
              character  should be printed at the current position, the current horizontal
              position should then be increased by the width of the first  character,  and
              so  on  for  each character.  The widths of the characters are read from the
              font file, scaled for the current point size, and rounded to a  multiple  of
              the  horizontal resolution.  Special characters cannot be printed using this
              command (use the C command for named characters).  This command is  a  groff
              extension; it is only used for devices whose DESC file contains the tcommand
              keyword; see groff_font(5).

       u n xxx〈white_space〉
              Print word with track kerning.  This is the same as  the  t  command  except
              that  after  printing  each  character,  the  current horizontal position is
              increased by the sum of the width of that character and  n  (an  integer  in
              basic  units  u).   This  command  is a groff extension; it is only used for
              devices whose DESC file contains the tcommand keyword; see groff_font(5).

       V n    Move down to the absolute vertical position n  (a  non-negative  integer  in
              basic units u) relative to upper edge of current page.

       v n    Move  n basic units u down (n is a non-negative integer).  [54] allows nega-
              tive values for n also, but groff doesn’t use this.

       w      Informs about a paddable whitespace to increase  readability.   The  spacing
              itself must be performed explicitly by a move command.

   Graphics Commands
       Each  graphics  or  drawing command in the intermediate output starts with the let-
       ter D followed by one or two characters that specify a subcommand; this is followed
       by  a  fixed or variable number of integer arguments that are separated by a single
       space character.  A D command may not be followed by another command  on  the  same
       line  (apart from a comment), so each D command is terminated by a syntactical line
       break.

       troff output follows the classical spacing rules (no space between command and sub-
       command,  all  arguments  are preceded by a single space character), but the parser
       allows optional space between the command letters and makes the  space  before  the
       first argument optional.  As usual, each space can be any sequence of tab and space
       characters.

       Some graphics commands can take a variable number of arguments.  In this case, they
       are  integers  representing a size measured in basic units u.  The arguments called
       h1, h2, ..., hn h1, h2, ..., hn stand for horizontal distances where positive means
       right,  negative  left.  The arguments called v1, v2, ..., vn v1, v2, ..., vn stand
       for vertical distances where positive means down, negative up.  All these distances
       are offsets relative to the current location.

       Unless indicated otherwise, each graphics command directly corresponds to a similar
       groff \D escape sequence; see groff(7).

       Unknown D commands are assumed to be device-specific.  Its arguments are parsed  as
       strings; the whole information is then sent to the postprocessor.

       In the following command reference, the syntax element 〈line_break〉 means a syntac-
       tical line break as defined in section Separation.

       D~ h1 v1 h2 v2 ... hn vn〈line_break〉
              Draw B-spline from current position  to  offset  (h1, v1),  then  to  offset
              (h2, v2) if given, etc. up to (hn, vn). This command takes a variable number
              of argument pairs; the current position is moved to the  terminal  point  of
              the drawn curve.

       Da h1 v1 h2 v2〈line_break〉
              Draw arc from current position to (h1, v1)+(h2, v2) with center at (h1, v1);
              then move the current position to the final point of the arc.

       DC d〈line_break〉
       DC d dummy_arg〈line_break〉
              Draw a solid circle using the current fill color with diameter d (integer in
              basic  units  u)  with leftmost point at the current position; then move the
              current position to the rightmost point of the circle.  An  optional  second
              integer  argument  is  ignored  (this allows to the formatter to generate an
              even number of arguments).  This command is a groff extension.

       Dc d〈line_break〉
              Draw circle line with diameter d (integer in basic units  u)  with  leftmost
              point  at the current position; then move the current position to the right-
              most point of the circle.

       DE h v〈line_break〉
              Draw a solid ellipse in the current fill color with  a  horizontal  diameter
              of  h and a vertical diameter of v (both integers in basic units u) with the
              leftmost point at the current position; then move to the rightmost point  of
              the ellipse.  This command is a groff extension.

       De h v〈line_break〉
              Draw  an  outlined  ellipse  with  a horizontal diameter of h and a vertical
              diameter of v (both integers in basic units u) with the  leftmost  point  at
              current position; then move to the rightmost point of the ellipse.

       DF color_scheme [component ...]〈line_break〉
              Set  fill color for solid drawing objects using different color schemes; the
              analoguous command for setting the color of text,  line  graphics,  and  the
              outline  of  graphic  objects  is  m.  The color components are specified as
              integer arguments between 0 and 65536.  The number of color  components  and
              their meaning vary for the different color schemes.  These commands are gen-
              erated by the groff escape sequences \Dâ€â€™F ...â€â€™  and \M (with no other corre-
              sponding graphics commands).  No position changing.  This command is a groff
              extension.

              DFc cyan magenta yellow〈line_break〉
                     Set fill color for solid drawing objects using the CMY color  scheme,
                     having the 3 color components cyan, magenta, and yellow.

              DFd 〈line_break〉
                     Set  fill  color  for solid drawing objects to the default fill color
                     value (black in most cases).  No component arguments.

              DFg gray〈line_break〉
                     Set fill color for solid drawing objects to the shade of  gray  given
                     by the argument, an integer between 0 (black) and 65536 (white).

              DFk cyan magenta yellow black〈line_break〉
                     Set fill color for solid drawing objects using the CMYK color scheme,
                     having the 4 color components cyan, magenta, yellow, and black.

              DFr red green blue〈line_break〉
                     Set fill color for solid drawing objects using the RGB color  scheme,
                     having the 3 color components red, green, and blue.

       Df n〈line_break〉
              The argument n must be an integer in the range -32767 to 32767.

              0 ≤ n ≤ 1000
                     Set  the  color for filling solid drawing objects to a shade of gray,
                     where 0 corresponds to solid  white,  1000  (the  default)  to  solid
                     black,  and values in between to intermediate shades of gray; this is
                     obsoleted by command DFg.

              n < 0 or n > 1000
                     Set the filling color to the color that is currently being  used  for
                     the  text  and  the outline, see command m.  For example, the command
                     sequence
                             mg 0 0 65536
                             Df -1
                     sets all colors to blue.

              No position changing.  This command is a groff extension.

       Dl h v〈line_break〉
              Draw line  from  current  position  to  offset  (h, v)  (integers  in  basic
              units u); then set current position to the end of the drawn line.

       Dp h1 v1 h2 v2 ... hn vn〈line_break〉
              Draw  a polygon line from current position to offset (h1, v1), from there to
              offset (h2, v2), etc. up to offset (hn, vn), and  from  there  back  to  the
              starting  position.   For  historical  reasons,  the  position is changed by
              adding the sum of all arguments with odd  index  to  the  actual  horizontal
              position  and the even ones to the vertical position.  Although this doesn’t
              make sense it is kept for compatibility.  This command is a groff extension.

       DP h1 v1 h2 v2 ... hn vn〈line_break〉
              The  same macro as the corresponding Dp command with the same arguments, but
              draws a solid polygon in the current fill  color  rather  than  an  outlined
              polygon.   The position is changed in the same way as with Dp.  This command
              is a groff extension.

       Dt n〈line_break〉
              Set the current line thickness to n (an integer in basic units u) if n>0; if
              n=0 select the smallest available line thickness; if n<0 set the line thick-
              ness proportional to the point size (this is the default before the first Dt
              command  was specified).  For historical reasons, the horizontal position is
              changed by adding the argument to the actual horizontal position, while  the
              vertical  position  is  not changed.  Although this doesn’t make sense it is
              kept for compatibility.  This command is a groff extension.

   Device Control Commands
       Each device control command starts with the letter x followed by a space  character
       (optional  or  arbitrary  space/tab in groff) and a subcommand letter or word; each
       argument (if any) must be preceded by a syntactical space.  All x commands are ter-
       minated  by  a syntactical line break; no device control command can be followed by
       another command on the same line (except a comment).

       The subcommand is basically a single letter, but to increase readability, it can be
       written  as a word, i.e. an arbitrary sequence of characters terminated by the next
       tab, space, or newline character.  All characters of the subcommand  word  but  the
       first  are  simply  ignored.  For example, troff outputs the initialization command
       x i as x init  and  the  resolution  command  x r  as  x res.   But  writings  like
       x i_like_groff and x roff_is_groff resp. are accepted as well to mean the same com-
       mands.

       In the following, the syntax element 〈line_break〉 means a syntactical line break as
       defined in section Separation.

       xF name〈line_break〉
              (Filename control command)
              Use  name  as the intended name for the current file in error reports.  This
              is useful for remembering the original file name when groff uses an internal
              piping mechanism.  The input file is not changed by this command.  This com-
              mand is a groff extension.

       xf n s〈line_break〉
              (font control command)
              Mount font position n (a non-negative integer) with font  named  s  (a  text
              word), cf.  groff_font(5).

       xH n〈line_break〉
              (Height control command)
              Set  character height to n (a positive integer in scaled points z).  Classi-
              cal troff used the unit points (p) instead; see section COMPATIBILITY.

       xi〈line_break〉
              (init control command)
              Initialize device.  This is the third command of the prologue.

       xp〈line_break〉
              (pause control command)
              Parsed but ignored.  The classical documentation reads pause device, can  be
              restarted.

       xr n h v〈line_break〉
              (resolution control command)
              Resolution is n, while h is the minimal horizontal motion, and v the minimal
              vertical motion possible with this device; all arguments are positive  inte-
              gers in basic units u per inch.  This is the second command of the prologue.

       xS n〈line_break〉
              (Slant control command)
              Set slant to n (an integer in basic units u).

       xs〈line_break〉
              (stop control command)
              Terminates the processing of the current file; issued as the last command of
              any intermediate troff output.

       xt〈line_break〉
              (trailer control command)
              Generate  trailer  information,  if  any.   In  groff, this is actually just
              ignored.

       xT xxx〈line_break〉
              (Typesetter control command)
              Set name of device to word xxx, a sequence of characters ended by  the  next
              whitespace  character.   The  possible device names coincide with those from
              the groff -T option.  This is the first command of the prologue.

       xu n〈line_break〉
              (underline control command)
              Configure underlining of spaces.  If n is 1, start underlining of spaces; if
              n  is  0,  stop underlining of spaces.  This is needed for the cu request in
              nroff mode and is ignored otherwise.  This command is a groff extension.

       xX anything〈line_break〉
              (X-escape control command)
              Send string anything uninterpreted to the device.   If  the  line  following
              this command starts with a + character this line is interpreted as a contin-
              uation line in the following sense.  The + is ignored, but a newline charac-
              ter  is  sent  instead  to the device, the rest of the line is sent uninter-
              preted.  The same applies to all following lines until the  first  character
              of  a  line  is  not  a + character.  This command is generated by the groff
              escape sequence \X.  The line-continuing feature is a groff extension.

   Obsolete Command
       In classical troff output, the writing of a single character was mostly done  by  a
       very  strange command that combined a horizontal move and the printing of a charac-
       ter.  It didn’t have a command code, but is represented by a  3-character  argument
       consisting of exactly 2 digits and a character.

       ddc    Move right dd (exactly two decimal digits) basic units u, then print charac-
              ter c.

              In groff, arbitrary syntactical space around  and  within  this  command  is
              allowed  to  be  added.  Only when a preceding command on the same line ends
              with an argument of variable length a separating space  is  obligatory.   In
              classical  troff,  large  clusters  of  these  and other commands were used,
              mostly without spaces; this made such output almost unreadable.

       For modern high-resolution devices, this command does not make  sense  because  the
       width  of the characters can become much larger than two decimal digits.  In groff,
       this is only used for the devices  X75,  X75-12,  X100,  and  X100-12.   For  other
       devices, the commands t and u provide a better functionality.

POSTPROCESSING
       The roff postprocessors are programs that have the task to translate the intermedi-
       ate output into actions that are sent to a device.  A device can be some  piece  of
       hardware  such  as  a  printer, or a software file format suitable for graphical or
       text processing.  The groff system provides powerful means that make  the  program-
       ming of such postprocessors an easy task.

       There  is  a  library  function  that  parses the intermediate output and sends the
       information obtained to the device via methods of a class with a  common  interface
       for  each  device.  So a groff postprocessor must only redefine the methods of this
       class.  For details, see the reference in section FILES.

EXAMPLES
       This section presents the intermediate output generated from  the  same  input  for
       three  different  devices.   The input is the sentence hell world fed into groff on
       the command line.

       · High-resolution device ps

         shell> echo hell world | groff -Z -T ps

         x T ps
         x res 72000 1 1
         x init
         p1
         x font 5 TR
         f5
         s10000
         V12000
         H72000
         thell
         wh2500
         tw
         H96620
         torld
         n12000 0
         x trailer
         V792000
         x stop

       This output can be fed into the postprocessor grops(1) to get its representation as
       a PostScript file.

       · Low-resolution device latin1

         This is similar to the high-resolution device except that the positioning is done
         at a minor scale.  Some comments (lines starting with #) were added for  clarifi-
         cation; they were not generated by the formatter.

         shell> echo hell world | groff -Z -T latin1

         # prologue
         x T latin1
         x res 240 24 40
         x init
         # begin a new page
         p1
         # font setup
         x font 1 R
         f1
         s10
         # initial positioning on the page
         V40
         H0
         # write text ‘hell’
         thell
         # inform about a space, and do it by a horizontal jump
         wh24
         # write text ‘world’
         tworld
         # announce line break, but do nothing because ...
         n40 0
         # ... the end of the document has been reached
         x trailer
         V2640
         x stop

       This  output  can  be  fed into the postprocessor grotty(1) to get a formatted text
       document.

       · Classical style output

         As a computer monitor has a very low resolution compared to modern  printers  the
         intermediate output for the X devices can use the jump-and-write command with its
         2-digit displacements.

         shell> echo hell world | groff -Z -T X100

         x T X100
         x res 100 1 1
         x init
         p1
         x font 5 TR
         f5
         s10
         V16
         H100
         # write text with old-style jump-and-write command
         ch07e07l03lw06w11o07r05l03dh7
         n16 0
         x trailer
         V1100
         x stop

       This output can be fed into the postprocessor xditview(1x) or gxditview(1) for dis-
       playing in X.

       Due to the obsolete jump-and-write command, the text clusters in the classical out-
       put are almost unreadable.

COMPATIBILITY
       The intermediate output language of the classical troff  was  first  documented  in
       [97].   The  groff intermediate output format is compatible with this specification
       except for the following features.

       · The classical quasi device independence is not yet implemented.

       · The old hardware was very different from what we use today.  So the groff devices
         are  also fundamentally different from the ones in classical troff.  For example,
         the classical PostScript device was called post and had a resolution of 720 units
         per  inch,  while  groff’s  ps  device  has a resolution of 72000 units per inch.
         Maybe, by implementing some rescaling mechanism similar to  the  classical  quasi
         device independence, these could be integrated into modern groff.

       · The  B-spline  command D~ is correctly handled by the intermediate output parser,
         but the drawing routines aren’t implemented in some  of  the  postprocessor  pro-
         grams.

       · The  argument  of  the commands s and x H has the implicit unit scaled point z in
         groff, while classical troff had point (p).  This isn’t an incompatibility, but a
         compatible extension, for both units coincide for all devices without a sizescale
         parameter, including all classical and the groff text  devices.   The  few  groff
         devices with a sizescale parameter either did not exist, had a different name, or
         seem to have had a different resolution.  So conflicts with classical devices are
         very unlikely.

       · The  position changing after the commands Dp, DP, and Dt is illogical, but as old
         versions of groff used this feature it is kept for compatibility reasons.

       The differences between groff and classical troff are documented in  groff_diff(7).

FILES
       /usr/share/groff/1.18.1.1/font/devname/DESC
              Device description file for device name.

       〈groff_source_dir〉/src/libs/libdriver/input.cc
              Defines  the  parser  and  postprocessor for the intermediate output.  It is
              located relative to the  top  directory  of  the  groff  source  tree,  e.g.
              @GROFFSRCDIR@.   This  parser  is  the definitive specification of the groff
              intermediate output format.

SEE ALSO
       A reference like groff(7) refers to a manual page; here groff in section 7  of  the
       man-page  documentation  system.   To  read  the example, look up section 7 in your
       desktop help system or call from the shell prompt

              shell> man 7 groff

       For more details, see man(1).

       groff(1)
              option -Z and further readings on groff.

       groff(7)
              for details of the  groff  language  such  as  numerical  units  and  escape
              sequences.

       groff_font(5)
              for details on the device scaling parameters of the DESC file.

       troff(1)
              generates the device-independent intermediate output.

       roff(7)
              for historical aspects and the general structure of roff systems.

       groff_diff(7)
              The  differences  between  the  intermediate  output  in groff and classical
              troff.

       grodvi(1), grohtml(1), grolbp(1), grolj4(1), grops(1), grotty(1)
              the groff postprocessor programs.

       For a treatment of all aspects of the groff system within a  single  document,  see
       the  groff  info  file.   It can be read within the integrated help systems, within
       emacs(1) or from the shell prompt by
              shell> info groff

       The classical troff output language is described in two AT&T Bell Labs  CSTR  docu-
       ments  available  on-line  at  Bell  Labs CSTR site 〈http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/
       cstr.html〉.

       [CSTR #97]
              A Typesetter-independent TROFF by Brian Kernighan is the original  and  most
              concise  documentation  on  the  output  language;  see  CSTR  #97  〈http://
              cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/cstr/97.ps.gz〉.

       [CSTR #54]
              The 1992 revision of the Nroff/Troff User’s Manual by J. F. Osanna and Brian
              Kernighan  isn’t as concise as [CSTR #97] regarding the output language; see
              CSTR #54 〈http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/cstr/54.ps.gz〉.

AUTHORS
       Copyright (C) 1989, 2001, 2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc.

       This document is distributed under the terms of the  FDL  (GNU  Free  Documentation
       License)  version  1.1  or  later.  You should have received a copy of the FDL with
       this package; it is also available  on-line  at  the  GNU  copyleft  site  〈http://
       www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html〉.

       This document is part of groff, the GNU roff distribution.  It is based on a former
       version - published under the GPL - that described only parts of the  groff  exten-
       sions  of  the  output  language.   It  has  been  rewritten  2002  by Bernd Warken
       〈bwarken AT mayn.de〉 and is maintained by Werner Lemberg 〈wl AT gnu.org〉.



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