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.

NOTE: Some PDFs may not render previewed in GitHub! You likely will have to download them.

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 Shaffter

• 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

• Research Unix papers written in Troff

• Workbooks written by the US Department of Defense on UNIX terminals, written in nroff and released for USENIX '81

• 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)