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groff_out(5)                  File Formats Manual                 groff_out(5)

Name
       groff_out - GNU roff intermediate output format

Description
       The  fundamental operation of the troff(1) formatter is the translation
       of the groff(7) input language into a series of instructions  concerned
       primarily  with  placing  glyphs or geometric objects at specific posi‐
       tions on a rectangular page.  In the  following  discussion,  the  term
       command  refers  to  this  intermediate  output  language, never to the
       groff(7) language intended for use by document  authors.   Intermediate
       output commands comprise several categories: glyph output; font, color,
       and text size selection; motion of the printing position; page advance‐
       ment;  drawing  of geometric primitives; and device control commands, a
       catch-all for other operations.  The last includes directives to  start
       and stop output, identify the intended output device, and embed URL hy‐
       perlinks in supported output formats.

       Because  the front-end command groff(1) is a wrapper that normally runs
       the troff formatter to generate intermediate output and an output  dri‐
       ver  (“postprocessor”)  to  consume it, users normally do not encounter
       this language.  The groff program's -Z option  inhibits  postprocessing
       such  that  this  intermediate  output  is  sent to the standard output
       stream as when troff is run manually.

       groff's intermediate output facilitates the development of output  dri‐
       vers  and  other postprocessors by offering a common programming inter‐
       face.  It is an extension of the page description language developed by
       Brian Kernighan for AT&T device-independent troff circa 1980.  Where  a
       distinction  is  necessary,  we will say “troff output” to describe the
       output of GNU troff, and “intermediate output” to denote  the  language
       accepted by the parser implemented in groff's internal C++ library used
       by most of its output drivers.

Language concepts
       During the run of troff, the roff input is cracked down to the informa‐
       tion 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 doc‐
       ument, the term “command” always refers to the intermediate output lan‐
       guage, never to the roff language used for document formatting.   There
       are commands for positioning and text writing, for drawing, and for de‐
       vice 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 po‐
       sitioning commands.

       Any  sequence of space or tab characters is treated as a single syntac‐
       tical space.  It separates commands and arguments, but is only required
       when there would occur a clashing between the command code and the  ar‐
       guments  without  the  space.   Most  often, this happens when variable
       length command names, arguments, argument lists,  or  command  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  charac‐
       ter.

       The  normal commands, those for positioning and text, consist of a sin‐
       gle letter taking a fixed number of arguments.  For historical reasons,
       the parser allows stacking of such commands on the same line, but  for‐
       tunately, in groff intermediate output, every command with at least one
       argument  is  followed  by a line break, thus providing excellent read‐
       ability.

       The other commands — those for drawing and device controlling — have  a
       more complicated structure; some recognize long command names, and some
       take  a variable number of arguments.  So all D and x commands were de‐
       signed 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 split by a line
       break.

       Lines containing only spaces and/or a comment are treated as empty  and
       ignored.

   Argument units
       Some commands accept integer arguments that represent measurements, but
       the  scaling  units  of  the formatter's language are never used.  Most
       commands assume a scaling unit of “u” (basic units), and others use “z”
       (scaled points); These are defined by the parameters specified  in  the
       device's  DESC  file; see groff_font(5) and, for more on scaling units,
       groff(7) and Groff: The GNU Implementation of troff, the groff  Texinfo
       manual.  Color-related commands use dimensionless integers.

       Note  that  single  characters  can have the eighth bit set, as can the
       names of fonts and special characters (this is, glyphs).  The names  of
       glyphs  and  fonts  can  be of arbitrary length.  A glyph 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  com‐
       mand.

   Document parts
       A  correct intermediate output document consists of two parts, the pro‐
       logue 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 subsection “Device  Control  Com‐
       mands”  below.   However, 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.  Syntac‐
       tically, it is a sequence of any commands different from the ones  used
       in  the prologue.  Processing 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 com‐
       mand.  Absolute positioning (by the H and V commands) is done  relative
       to the current page, all other positioning is done relative to the cur‐
       rent location within this page.

Command reference
       This  section describes all intermediate output commands, the classical
       commands as well as the groff extensions.

   Comment command
       #anything⟨line-break⟩
              A comment.  Ignore any characters from the # character up to the
              next newline.  Each comment can be preceded by arbitrary syntac‐
              tical space; every command can be terminated by a comment.

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

       C id⟨white-space⟩
              Typeset the glyph of the special character id.  Trailing syntac‐
              tical space is necessary to allow special character names of ar‐
              bitrary length.  The drawing position is not advanced.

       c c    Typeset the glyph of the ordinary character  character  c.   The
              drawing position is not advanced.

       f n    Select the font mounted at position n.  n cannot be negative.

       H n    Horizontally move the drawing position to n basic units from the
              left edge of the page.  n cannot be negative.

       h n    Move  the  drawing position right n basic units.  AT&T troff al‐
              lowed negative n; GNU troff does not produce  such  values,  but
              groff's output driver library handles them.

       m scheme [component ...]
              Select  the stroke color using the components in the color space
              scheme.  Each component is an integer between 0 and 65536.   The
              quantity of components and their meanings vary with each scheme.
              This command is a groff extension.

              mc cyan magenta yellow
                     Use  the  CMY color scheme with components cyan, magenta,
                     and yellow.

              md     Use the default  color  (no  components;  black  in  most
                     cases).

              mg gray
                     Use a grayscale color scheme with a component ranging be‐
                     tween 0 (black) and 65536 (white).

              mk cyan magenta yellow black
                     Use  the CMYK color scheme with components cyan, magenta,
                     yellow, and black.

              mr red green blue
                     Use the RGB color scheme with components red, green,  and
                     blue.

       N n    Typeset  the  glyph with index n in the current font.  n is nor‐
              mally a non-negative integer.  The drawing position is  not  ad‐
              vanced.   The html and xhtml devices use this command with nega‐
              tive n to produce unbreakable space; the absolute value of n  is
              taken and interpreted in basic units.

       n b a  Indicate  a  break.   No  action  is  performed;  the command is
              present to make the output more easily parsed.  The  integers  b
              and  a  describe the vertical space amounts before and after the
              break, respectively.  GNU troff issues this command but  groff's
              output driver library ignores it.  See v and V.

       p n    Begin  a  new page, setting its number to n.  Each page is inde‐
              pendent, even from those using the same  number.   The  vertical
              drawing  position  is  set  to 0.  All positioning, writing, and
              drawing commands are interpreted in the context of a page, so  a
              p command must precede them.

       s n    Set  type  size  to n scaled points (unit z in GNU troff).  AT&T
              troff used unscaled points (p) instead; see section “Compatibil‐
              ity” below.

       t xyz...⟨white-space⟩
       t xyz... dummy-arg⟨white-space⟩
              Typeset word xyz; that is, set a  sequence  of  ordinary  glyphs
              named  x,  y,  z,  ..., terminated by a space or newline; an op‐
              tional second integer argument is ignored (this allows the  for‐
              matter  to generate an even number of arguments).  Each glyph is
              set at the current drawing position, and the  position  is  then
              advanced  horizontally by the glyph's width.  A glyph's width is
              read from its metrics in the font description  file,  scaled  to
              the current type size, and rounded to a multiple of the horizon‐
              tal motion quantum.  Use the C command to emplace glyphs of spe‐
              cial characters.  The t command is a groff extension and is out‐
              put  only  for devices whose DESC file contains the tcommand di‐
              rective; see groff_font(5).

       u n xyz...
       u xyz... dummy-arg⟨white-space⟩
              Typeset word xyz with track kerning.  As t,  but  after  placing
              each  glyph,  the  drawing position is further advanced horizon‐
              tally by n basic units.  The u command is a groff extension  and
              is output only for devices whose DESC file contains the tcommand
              directive; see groff_font(5).

       V n    Vertically  move  the drawing position to n basic units from the
              top edge of the page.  n cannot be negative.

       v n    Move the drawing position down n basic units.   AT&T  troff  al‐
              lowed  negative  n;  GNU troff does not produce such values, but
              groff's output driver library handles them.

       w      Indicate an inter-word space.  No action is performed; the  com‐
              mand is present to make the output more easily parsed.  Only ad‐
              justable,  breakable inter-word spaces are thus described; those
              resulting from \~ or horizontal motion escape sequences are not.
              GNU troff issues this command but groff's output driver  library
              ignores it.  See h and H.

   Graphics commands
       Each graphics or drawing command in the intermediate output starts with
       the  letter  D followed by one or two characters that specify a subcom‐
       mand; this is followed by a fixed or variable number of  integer  argu‐
       ments  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  com‐
       ment), so each D command is terminated by a syntactical line break.

       troff output follows the classical spacing rules (no space between com‐
       mand and subcommand, all arguments are preceded by a single space char‐
       acter),  but  the parser allows optional space between the command let‐
       ters 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 h arguments stand for horizontal distances where positive
       means right, negative left.  The v arguments stand  for  vertical  dis‐
       tances 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 post‐
       processor.

       In the following command reference,  the  syntax  element  ⟨line-break⟩
       means  a  syntactical  line break as defined in subsection “Separation”
       above.

       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 the formatter to generate an even number  of  argu‐
              ments).  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 rightmost 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 ba‐
              sic 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  analogous  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 gener‐
              ated  by  the  groff escape sequences \D'F ...'  and \M (with no
              other corresponding graphics commands).  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, ma‐
                     genta, and yellow.

              DFd ⟨line-break⟩
                     Set fill color for solid drawing objects to  the  default
                     fill color value (black in most cases).  No component ar‐
                     guments.

              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,  ma‐
                     genta, 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  be‐
                     ing  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.

              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  rea‐
              sons, the position is changed by adding the sum of all arguments
              with  odd  index to the current 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  exten‐
              sion.

       DP h1 v1 h2 v2 ... hn vn⟨line-break⟩
              The same macro as the corresponding Dp command with the same ar‐
              guments,  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; otherwise, the line thickness is made proportional to
              the type size, which is the default.   For  historical  reasons,
              the horizontal position is changed by adding the argument to the
              current  horizontal position, while the vertical position is not
              changed.  Although this doesn't make sense, it is kept for  com‐
              patibility.  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  sub‐
       command  letter  or  word; each argument (if any) must be preceded by a
       syntactical space.  All x commands are terminated 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 readabil‐
       ity, it can be written as a word, i.e., an arbitrary sequence of  char‐
       acters  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 are accepted as well to mean the same commands.

       In the following, the syntax element ⟨line-break⟩ means  a  syntactical
       line break as defined in subsection “Separation” above.

       xF name⟨line-break⟩
              (Filename control command)
              Use  name as the intended name for the current file in error re‐
              ports.  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 command 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); see groff_font(5).

       xH n⟨line-break⟩
              (Height control command)
              Set  character  height  to  n  (a  positive  integer  in  scaled
              points z).  Classical troff used the unit  points  (p)  instead;
              see section “Compatibility” below.

       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 de‐
              vice, 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 argu‐
              ments  are positive integers 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 degrees (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 cur‐
              rently ignored.

       xT xxx⟨line-break⟩
              (Typesetter control command)
              Set the name of the output driver to xxx,  a  sequence  of  non-
              whitespace  characters  terminated  by whitespace.  The possible
              names correspond to those of groff's -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 gnroff mode and is ignored other‐
              wise.  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 continuation line in the following sense.   The
              + is ignored, but a newline character is sent instead to the de‐
              vice,  the rest of the line is sent uninterpreted.  The same ap‐
              plies 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 ex‐
              tension.

   Obsolete command
       In classical troff output, emitting a single glyph was mostly done by a
       very strange command that combined a horizontal move and  the  printing
       of  a  glyph.   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 glyph with single-letter name 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 sep‐
              arating 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 glyphs can become much larger than two decimal
       digits.  In groff, it is used only for output to the X75, X75-12, X100,
       and  X100-12 devices.  For others, the commands t and u provide greater
       functionality and superior troubleshooting capacity.

Postprocessing
       The roff postprocessors are programs that have the  task  to  translate
       the  intermediate output into actions that are sent to a device.  A de‐
       vice can be some piece of hardware such as a  printer,  or  a  software
       file  format suitable for graphical or text processing.  The groff sys‐
       tem provides powerful means that make the  programming  of  such  post‐
       processors 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 refer‐
       ence in section “Files” below.

Example
       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  rep‐
       resentation  as  a  PostScript file, or gropdf(1) to output directly to
       PDF.

       • Low-resolution device latin1

         This is similar to the high-resolution device except that  the  posi‐
         tioning is done at a minor scale.  Some comments (lines starting with
         #)  were added for clarification; they were not generated by the for‐
         matter.

         shell> "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  for‐
       matted 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> "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 displaying in X.

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

Compatibility
       The intermediate output language of the classical troff was first docu‐
       mented in [CSTR #97].  The groff intermediate output format is compati‐
       ble 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 clas‐
         sical troff.  For example, the classical PostScript device was called
         post and had a resolution of 720 units per inch, while groff's ps de‐
         vice has a resolution of 72000 units per inch.  Maybe, by  implement‐
         ing  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 out‐
         put parser, but the drawing routines aren't implemented  in  some  of
         the postprocessor programs.

       • 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 classi‐
         cal 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 compat‐
         ibility reasons.

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

Files
       /usr/share/groff/1.23.0/font/devname/DESC
              describes the output device name.

Authors
       James  Clark  wrote  an early version of this document, which described
       only the differences between  AT&T  device-independent  troff's  output
       format  and  that  of  GNU  roff.   The  present version was completely
       rewritten in 2001 by Bernd Warken ⟨groff-bernd.warken-72@web.de⟩.

See also
       Groff: The GNU Implementation of troff, by Trent A. Fisher  and  Werner
       Lemberg,  is the primary groff manual.  You can browse it interactively
       with “info groff”.

       “Troff User's Manual” by Joseph F. Ossanna, 1976 (revised by  Brian  W.
       Kernighan,  1992),  AT&T  Bell Laboratories Computing Science Technical
       Report No. 54, widely called simply “CSTR #54”, documents the language,
       device and font description file formats, and device-independent output
       format referred to collectively in groff documentation as “AT&T troff”.

       “A Typesetter-independent TROFF” by Brian W. Kernighan, 1982, AT&T Bell
       Laboratories Computing Science Technical Report No. 97, provides  addi‐
       tional  insights  into the device and font description file formats and
       device-independent output format.

       groff(1)
              documents the -Z option and contains pointers to  further  groff
              documentation.

       groff(7)
              describes the groff language, including its escape sequences and
              system of units.

       groff_font(5)
              details the device scaling parameters of device DESC files.

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

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

       groff_diff(7)
              enumerates  differences between the intermediate output produced
              by AT&T troff and that of groff.

       gxditview(1)
              is a viewer for intermediate output.

       Roff.js
              ⟨https://github.com/Alhadis/Roff.js/⟩ is a viewer for intermedi‐
              ate output written in JavaScript.

       grodvi(1), grohtml(1), grolbp(1), grolj4(1), gropdf(1),  grops(1),  and
       grotty(1) are groff postprocessors.



ATTRIBUTES
       See attributes(7) for descriptions of the following attributes:

       box; cbp-1 | cbp-1 l | l .  ATTRIBUTE TYPE ATTRIBUTE VALUE = Availabil‐
       ity   text/groff = Stability Uncommitted

NOTES
       Source  code  for open source software components in Oracle Solaris can
       be found at https://www.oracle.com/downloads/opensource/solaris-source-
       code-downloads.html.

       This software was built from source available at:
       https://github.com/oracle/solaris-userland

       The original community source was downloaded from:
       https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/groff/groff-1.23.0.tar.gz

       Further information about this software can be found on the open source
       community website at https://www.gnu.org/software/groff.

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