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Groff is a document formatting system.
Groff takes standard text and formatting commands as input and produces formatted output.
The created documents can be shown on a display or printed on a printer.
Groff's formatting commands allow you to specify font type and size, bold type, italic type, the number and size of columns on a page, and more.
You should install groff if you want to use it as a document formatting system.
Groff can also be used to format man pages. If you are going to use groff with the X Window System, you'll also need to install the groff-gxditview package.
groff: groff (GNU Troff) is a typesetting package
Groff is a document formatting system.Groff takes standard text and formatting commands as input and produces formatted output.
The created documents can be shown on a display or printed on a printer.
Groff's formatting commands allow you to specify font type and size, bold type, italic type, the number and size of columns on a page, and more.
You should install groff if you want to use it as a document formatting system.
Groff can also be used to format man pages. If you are going to use groff with the X Window System, you'll also need to install the groff-gxditview package.
| Name: | groff |
| Release: | 1.23.0-1mamba |
| Group: | Applications/Publishing |
| Maintainer: | silvan |
| License: | GPL |
| Size: | 7.08 MB |
| Upstream URL: | http://www.gnu.org/software/groff/ |
| Build time: | 2023-07-08 12:03:57 |
Binary packages and requirements
| x86_64 | aarch64 | i586 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Built RPMS | groff groff-X11 groff-debug groff-docs | groff groff-X11 groff-debug groff-docs | groff groff-X11 groff-debug groff-docs |
| Build requirements | gettext-devel[>=0:0.14.1] [1] ghostscript[>=0:7.07.1] [1] glibc-devel [1] libICE-devel [1] libSM-devel [1] libX11-devel [1] libXaw-devel [1] libXmu-devel [1] libXt-devel [1] libgcc [1] libstdc++6-devel [1] | gettext-devel[>=0:0.14.1] [1] ghostscript[>=0:7.07.1] [1] glibc-devel [1] libICE-devel [1] libSM-devel [1] libX11-devel [1] libXaw-devel [1] libXmu-devel [1] libXt-devel [1] libgcc [1] libstdc++6-devel [1] | gettext-devel[>=0:0.14.1] [1] ghostscript[>=0:7.07.1] [1] glibc-devel [1] libICE-devel [1] libSM-devel [1] libX11-devel [1] libXaw-devel [1] libXmu-devel [1] libXt-devel [1] libgcc [1] libstdc++6-devel [1] |
History of changes
| Date | Packager | Release | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-07-08 | autodist | 1.23.0-1mamba | - automatic version update by autodist |
| 2018-12-24 | autodist | 1.22.4-1mamba | - automatic version update by autodist |
| 2016-01-29 | silvan | 1.22.3-2mamba | - remove internal perl automatic deps |
| 2014-11-05 | autodist | 1.22.3-1mamba | - automatic version update by autodist |
| 2013-02-09 | autodist | 1.22.2-1mamba | - automatic version update by autodist |
| 2013-01-07 | autodist | 1.22.1-1mamba | - automatic version update by autodist |
| 2011-10-04 | silvan | 1.21-2mamba | - examples and html files moved to docs subpackage |
| 2010-12-31 | autodist | 1.21-1mamba | - automatic update by autodist |
| 2009-01-10 | silvan | 1.20.1-1mamba | - automatic update to 1.20.1 by autodist |
| 2009-01-06 | silvan | 1.20-1mamba | - automatic update to 1.20 by autodist |
