From robtu@itx.isc.com Tue Apr 13 08:59:21 1993 Received: from austin.itx.isc.com by toadflax.cs.ucdavis.edu (4.1/UCD.CS.2.2) id AA00496; Tue, 13 Apr 93 08:59:14 PDT Received: by austin.itx.isc.com (AIX 3.2/UCB 5.64/4.03) id AA35951; Tue, 13 Apr 1993 10:55:59 -0500 Date: Tue, 13 Apr 1993 10:55:59 -0500 From: robtu@itx.isc.com (Rob Tulloh) Message-Id: <9304131555.AA35951@austin.itx.isc.com> To: announce@cs.ucdavis.edu Subject: groff-1.07 announcement Status: RO TITLE GROFF VERSION Version 1.07 (for the Amiga) COMPANY None... This is GNU software. You can reach the author of this release on the internet at the following address: Rob Tulloh INTERACTIVE / SHL Tel: (512) 343 0376 x116 9442 Capital of Texas Hwy. North Fax: (512) 343 1414 Arboretum Plaza One, Suite 700 Net: robtu@itx.isc.com Austin, Texas 78759 DESCRIPTION Groff is the GNU version of U*nix troff and associated programs. For those unfamiliar with troff (or ditroff), it is a facility similar to TeX for typesetting and formatting text by embedding commands in the text which are then interpreted by troff to change the way the text is displayed. For example, you can change attributes like page margins, font, and point size. You can do formatting operations like centering, filling, and justifying. This does not even begin to describe all the things you can do with groff. There are whole volumes of text at your local bookstore which do a much better job. Groff is good to use for formatting and displaying text directly in your screen. In ascii mode, you can print files to PRT: directly. To get even fancier, it is also very useful in conjunction with other programs such as GNU GhostScript (version 2.5.2 available on aminet), Post (version 1.86 available on aminet) and Nenscript for formatting output for postscript drivers. It should also be suitable for producing dvi output for TeX post-processors. The GNU version of troff comes with all the de facto standard pre-processing programs: eqn for formatting arithmetic expressions, pic for drawing pictures, tbl for formatting tables of data, grap for drawing graphs, neqn, refer, indxbib, and much more! Also included are several post processors including one that causes troff to produce PostScript, ASCII, latin1, and dvi output. There are several macro packages including man, mm, me, and ms. Using these macro packages allows you to format documents using higher level expressions designed to make n/troff easier to use. With the man macros, you can now display or print all those man page files that come with other Un*x packages distributed for the Amiga! The Amiga version of groff has been distributed in 2 parts. One archive (groff-1.07bin.lha) contains a run-time distribution only. It includes all the files you need to install and run n/troff on your Amiga. Also included are some of the interesting text files from the original distribution. These were included to help users to use groff more effectively and to resolve problems. If you want to compile and build groff yourself, the archive groff-1.07src.lha contains the source plus patches you need to compile, build, and install groff on your Amiga (using g++ and gmake). It does not contain any runtime code. Of course, there are many requirements to do this. I would only recommend this if you have problems running the version I built. See the README.amiga file included with the distribution for a list of requirements needed to build groff. NEW FEATURES Upgrade from version 1.06 posted earlier this year. This was a GNU update, see the file ChangeLog in the release for specific features/bug fixes in 1.07. SPECIAL REQUIREMENT You probably need KS 2.x for full compatibility with AmigaDOS. This is mostly due to dependencies on ixemul.library which is best suited for 2.x (and higher?) systems. You are encouraged to get and install pdksh on your system so you can take advantage of the shell scripts which come with groff. Pdksh is not required; everything done in shell scripts can be converted to AmigaDOS syntax. You need the lha program to unpack the archive. HOST NAME The archives were uploaded to aminet (amiga.phsysik.unizh.ch) on April 9, 1993. They have migrated to the aminet file tree (see below). FILE NAME util/gnu/groff-1.07bin.lha util/gnu/groff-1.07src.lha PRICE Free. DISTRIBUTABILITY Freely-distributable. The GNU copyright/copyleft restrictions apply. See the file COPYING for more information. See the file COPYING.LIB for information on distribution/copyright of Markus Wild's excellent implementation of ixemul.library (thank you, thank you Markus!)