troff
Sign in to savetroff (), short for "typesetter roff", is the major component of a document processing system developed by Bell Labs for the Unix operating system. troff and the related nroff were both developed from the original roff.
Key facts
- Software.name
- troff
- Software.author
- Joe Ossanna
- Software.developer
- AT&T Bell Laboratories
- Software.programming language
- C
- Software.operating system
- Unix, Unix-like, Plan 9
- Software.platform
- Cross-platform
- Software.genre
- Command
- Software.license
- Plan 9: MIT License
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Official website
troff.org — the Text Processor for Typesetters
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Wikidata facts
- Official website
- troff.org
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- text/troff
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- Troff
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troff (), short for "typesetter roff", is the major component of a document processing system developed by Bell Labs for the Unix operating system. troff and the related nroff were both developed from the original roff.
While nroff was intended to produce output on terminals and line printers, troff was intended to produce output on typesetting systems, specifically the Graphic Systems CAT, which had been introduced in 1972. Both used the same underlying markup language, and a single source file could normally be used by nroff or troff without change.