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1This package contains manual page sources for the groff family of text
2formatters. As described in the DESCR file for text-groff-catman, the
3online manual pages for groff contain information about the following
4groff-related utilities:
5
6	grog - grog reads files and guesses which of the groff(1) options
7	-e, -man, -me, -mm, -ms, -p, -s, and -t are  required  for
8	printing  files, and  prints  the groff command including those
9	options on the standard output;
10
11	troff - describes the GNU version of troff, which is part of the
12	groff document formatting  system;
13
14	tbl - tbl compiles  descriptions  of tables embedded within troff
15	input files into commands that are understood  by  troff;
16
17	pic - pic compiles  descriptions  of  pictures embedded within
18	troff or TeX input files into commands that are understood  by
19	TeX or  troff;
20
21	eqn - compiles descriptions  of  equations  embedded  within  troff
22	input files  into  commands that are understood by troff
23
24	soelim - eliminate .so directives from nroff input
25
26	refer - preprocess bibliographic references for groff
27
28	grops - translates the output of GNU  troff  to  PostScript
29
30	grodvi - convert groff output to TeX dvi format
31
32	grotty - translates  the  output  of  GNU troff into a form
33	suitable for  typewriter-like  devices
34
35	groff_font  -  format of groff device and font description files
36
37	groff_out - groff intermediate output format
38
39	groff_ms, ms - groff ms macros
40
41	me - macros for formatting technical papers
42
43	groff_char - lists the standard groff input characters
44